El Zubier, A.G. 2000 A cross sectional study of hypertensive patients was conducted and drug compliance was estimated. Factors associated with compliance, status of blood pressure control and occurrence of complications were assessed. Compliance was 59.6 as measured with the pill count method. We found 92 of compliant patients had controlled blood pressure in comparison with 18 of non compliant patients, and 30.1 of the compliant patients had complications in comparison with 46.3 of the non compliant patients. While the compliance rate was reasonable, 36.8 of ...