NUI Galway lecturer awarded two prizes by British Pharmacological Society
Dr. James Curneen was awarded best International Oral Prize and best Clinical Oral Prize
Dr. James Curneen, SpR in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Galway University Hospital and Adjunct lecturer in Pharmacology, NUI Galway has been awarded two prizes at the recent British Pharmacological Society’s annual conference- Pharmacology 2021.
His oral presentation on "Major disparities in patient-reported adherence compared to an objective assessment of adherence using mass spectrometry: a prospective study in a tertiary-referral hypertension clinic" was awarded the International Oral Prize for the best international oral communication and the Clinical Oral Prize, awarded for the best clinical oral communication.
The research discovered that a minority of patients attending the clinic were taking all of their self-reported anti-hypertensive medications, despite the majority reporting their adherence to therapies. Reasons for this include medication cost, side effects, and perceived benefit.
Many challenges exist is assessing the degree to which patients adhere in taking their anti-hypertensive (high blood pressure) medications. As part of our research, performed among patients attending a specialised hypertension clinic, we asked patients if they were taking their anti-hypertensive medications and compared this to objective evidence to detect the medications in a patient’s urine sample that they provided, using a technique called “high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry” (LC-MS/MS).
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