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Treatment intensification improves blood pressure
control rate up to 20%.
Treatment inertia
Failure to adequately up-titrate treatment
when treatment goals are unmet 145
80
Insufficient use of combination treatment
Therapeutic inertia is associated with factors related
to the physician, patient, and health care system.
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