Association between nonadherence to cardiovascular risk factor medications after breast cancer diagnosis and incidence of cardiac events

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death among patients with early-stage breast cancer (BC), but adherence to cardiovascular disease risk factor (CVD-RF) medications is reported to be poor in BC survivors. The objective of the current study was to determine the association between nonadherence to CVD-RF medications and cardiovascular events in BC survivors.The authors included patients with stages I to III BC from the...