The Impact of Treatment Adherence for Patients With Diabetes and Hypertension on Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Protocol for a Retrospective Cohort Study, 2008-2018

Min Su   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Victoria Haldane   ² , MPH ;   Ross Upshur   ^{2, 3, 4} , MD ;   Frank Sullivan   ^{2, 4, 5} , MD ;   France Légaré   ⁶ , PhD ;   Michelle Greiver   ^{4, 7} , MSc ;   Xiaolin Wei   ² , PhD

¹ School of Public Administration, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

² Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health Systems, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵ School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, United Kingdom

⁶ Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec, QC, Canada

⁷ North York General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada