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Physician And Patient Barriers To Adherence With Cholesterol Guidelines, Lynne Goebel, Asim Khattak, Fadl Ballony, Todd Gress
Physician And Patient Barriers To Adherence With Cholesterol Guidelines, Lynne Goebel, Asim Khattak, Fadl Ballony, Todd Gress
Todd W. Gress
Several national studies have shown poor compliance with National Cholesterol Education Program II (NCEP) goals. A study we conducted of patients in the General Internal Medicine Clinic at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine in Huntington showed that 46% of them were not at NCEP goals. We hypothesized that both patient and physician barriers were responsible for these findings so we administered two surveys about barriers to cholesterol management to 261 random patients identified with hypercholesterolemia and to all 50 residents and faculty at the clinic. We identified insufficient knowledge of low cholesterol foods as a patient …