Relationship between antihypertensive drug use and number of people with high blood pressure in FY 2018: a descriptive epidemiological study based on the National Database of Health Insurance Claims and Specific Health Checkups of Japan open data
Kanako Mizuno, Ryo Inose, Yukina Yoshimura, Yuichi Muraki · 2023
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Kanako Mizuno and co-authors published this study in 2023. It checks whether a standard drug-use metric can stand in for hypertension counts in Japan. The metric, defined daily doses per thousand people per day, is common abroad but was untested against patient numbers. The team pulled outpatient prescription data from a national claims database for 2018. They compared drug use with the number of people showing high blood pressure at checkups, split by sex and age.
Drug use rose with age in both sexes. Two drug families dominated from age twenty onward. The metric matched the count of people with high systolic pressure almost perfectly. It did not match diastolic counts at all. The authors conclude the metric works as a stand-in for systolic hypertension numbers. That gives planners a cheap way to track treatment coverage from claims data alone.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kanako Mizuno, Ryo Inose, Yukina Yoshimura, Yuichi Muraki |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |