What factors influence patients' adherence to medical advice related to BP-modifying drugs?
The reasons why patients do or do not adhere to medical advice are believed to depend in part on cost benefit analysis by the patients themselves. This is particularly relevant to the use of BP-modifying drugs that do not provide immediately perceivable improvement in quality of life or relief of symptoms, yet have immediately observable negative effects in terms of expense and inconvenience, even if there are no adverse side effects.