Is there an impatience genotype leading to non-adh... [Diabetologia. 2010] - PubMed result

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Diabetologia. 2010 Apr 21. [Epub ahead of print]

Is there an impatience genotype leading to non-adherence to long-term therapies?
Reach G.

Service d'Endocrinologie, Diabétologie, Maladies Métaboliques, Hôpital Avicenne APHP, 125 route de Stalingrad, 93000, Bobigny, France, gerard.reach@avc.aphp.fr.

Abstract
In chronic diseases such as diabetes, adherence to therapy aims to preserve health, which is a long-term objective, whereas non-adherence tends to present an immediate 'reward'. We propose that non-adherence, like addiction, is at least in part due to the fact that, for physiological, and maybe genetic reasons described in a new field, neuroeconomics, a number of people have a taste for the present rather than the future. Thus, for 'impatient patients' it is natural not to adhere to therapeutic prescriptions that share the characteristic of being future-oriented. This hypothesis may apply to any disease requiring long-term therapy.

PMID: 20407742 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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