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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">BMANA</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Journal of BMANA</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of BMANA</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">Journal of BMANA</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn>
      <issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">84</article-id>
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          <subject>Medical Association</subject>
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        <article-title>HYPERTENSION - COMPLIANCE ENSURES CONTROL: Challenges for Bangladeshi Americans in Compliance&#13;
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      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>24</day>
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>1</fpage>
      <lpage>9</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2009</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
          <license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p>
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      <abstract>
        <p>The key factor in the management of hypertension is the patient!s compliance with the treatment. There are some strategies a patient needs to follow all together to be compliant with the treatment of hypertension, and those are as follows: medication adherence, engaging in physical activity, adherence to the Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, etc. We have performed an analysis to determine the patient!s compliance with the treatment of hypertension based on the questionnaires filled out by the hypertensive patients visiting their doctor!s office for follow-up. The subjects were of Bangladeshi descent and followed a particular dietary and lifestyle pattern. An intricate network of factors impacting compliance in HTN control was discovered through questionnaire analysis. The Morisky Medication Adherence Scale was used to assess compliance. Scoring according to the MMAS-4 scale revealed that a higher percentage of participants had medium to low adherence to the prescribed medication regimen, in contrast with a lower percentage of participants who had high adherence to the prescribed medication regimen. As the participants were of Bangladeshi descent and their diet is traditionally rich in red meat and fried food, this high prevalence of an unrestricted diet led to a higher percentage of participants having uncontrolled blood pressure. A higher percentage of patients who participated in more physical activity had blood pressure that was under control. On the other hand, we found out that for some participants, instead of having an active lifestyle, other factors such as non-adherence to medication and the DASH diet contributed to their poor control of blood pressure. In our study, we also discussed the importance of the patient!s compliance with the treatment of hypertension and the strategies to be compliant with the treatment.&#13;
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