How do patients at risk portray candidates for coronary heart disease? A qualitative interview study

“Couldn't you have done just as well without the screening?”

“…Despite this, our related interview-study showed that even those who regard themselves as susceptible to future disease due to elevated CRS can find it hard to maintain initiated lifestyle changes when other results of the screening are normal or interpreted as such, or when stressful circumstances occur in the participant's life [5]. This accords with Frick et al's findings that distancing is one way that patients cope with risk [18]. How, then, should those without a high CRS acquire the impetus to take preventive action?…”

The Agenda for Familial Hypercholesterolemia

“…Patients feel safer while taking medication and guilty when noncompliant. 18,19 Parents are critical in promoting treatment adherence, but gaps often exist between children's and parents' perspectives of the disease. These perceptions affect adherence to both lifestyle interventions and medications.…”

Making sense of unfamiliar risks in the countryside: The case of Lyme disease

“…Frich, Malterud, and Fugelli, 2007). The claim that the risk was minimal was constructed by juxtaposing the frequent experience of spending time in the countryside with never having contracted LD.…”