Fig. 7

Density plots showing the frequency density of the proportion of days covered by prescription (measured as the absolute number of days under prescription over the total number of days from the diagnosis until the end of the observation period) in the subgroup of individuals diagnosed with hypertension in the 3 years before the pandemic (2017–2019: orange curve) and in the subgroup of individuals diagnosed in the 3 years during the pandemic (2020–2022: purple curve). Dashed lines represent the means for each group