Fig. 3. Proportion of adherent patients according to district in Seoul after adjusting for individual and regional factors. The tendency of proportion difference of adherent patients among districts was still similar even after the adjustment made for both individual and regional factors. Analyses were performed using ANCOVA. Individual factors (age, sex, severity of disability, income level, insurance coverage, cost of antihypertensive drugs, prescription period), regional factors (number of hospital beds/1,000, number of hospitals and pharmacies, number of tertiary hospitals, number of general hospitals, number of clinics, GDP of each region). Adherent patients: patients with medication possession ratio≥80%.
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