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Trends in Antihypertensive Use among Privately insured hypertensive Clients in Ghana

2023-03-31

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>To describe the patterns of antihypertensive medicines (AHM) in a selected national population in Ghana. We analysed the claims data for all privately-insured patients in Ghana over three years to 2018. We examined the medicines, class and dose by time, gender and age, and generic status. We estimate the use in Defined Daily Dose (DDD) per 1000 population per day. Classes of AHM prescri...

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-2647918/v1
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