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Patient and general practitioner attitudes to taking medication to prevent cardiovascular disease after receiving detailed information on risks and benefits of treatment: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND: There are now effective drugs to prevent cardiovascular disease and guidelines recommend their use. Patients do not always choose to accept preventive medication at levels of risk reduction recommended in guidelines. The purpose of the study was to identify and explore the attitudes of p...

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Autores principales: Gale, Nicola K, Greenfield, Sheila, Gill, Paramjit, Gutridge, Kerry, Marshall, Tom
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3135546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21703010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-12-59