[Validation of the telephone call as a method for measuring compliance to arterial hypertension treatment in Extremadura].

Introduction: Pharmacological non-compliance is a significant problem that can affect patient health. The main aim of this investigation is to validate the telephone call to the patient' home as a self-report method of counting the amount of tablets taken by the patient, as an alternative method to a simple tablet count in the clinic (gold standard).

Patients And Methods: An observational, multicentre, prospective, and longitudinal study was conducted by 25 researchers in different health centres in Extremadura, and which included 125 consecutively enrolled patients with uncontrolled arterial hypertension, 121 ended the study.

[Acetylation polymorphism in lung cancer].

The acetylation phenotype was determined, by means of sulfamethazine measurement, in 87 patients (83 male) with confirmed bronchogenic carcinoma and in 93 healthy control patients (41 male) of equal ages. 48 patients and 54 controls were classified as being "slow acetylators" (Ch2 n.s.