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survey: consumers show confidence
in pharmacists

NEW YORK — With cardiovascular disease being the top killer of American men and women, a lot of restaurants and retailers have made going healthy as prominent in their marketing strategies as going green, but community pharmacies can have a more direct and lasting effect on their customers’ heart health through such efforts as education and ensuring medication adherence.

The American Heart Association predicted that the cardiovascular disease epidemic, estimated to affect more than 80 million Americans, will have direct and indirect costs of more than $500 billion this year, while fewer than half of the high-est-risk people are receiving treatment to lower the lipids in their blood, and only one-third of those receiving treatment are achieving their desired levels of “bad” LDL cholesterol.

But according to a survey of 723 American adults ages 40 years and older commissioned by drug maker GlaxoSmithKline and conducted by Opinion Research Corp., 62% of respondents said they ranked pharmacies and pharmacists high as being good sources of information in helping them manage such conditions as diabetes, high cholesterol and high amounts of blood fat called triglycerides, an aspect of heart health often overshadowed by LDL and “good” HDL cholesterol.

“Pharmacists have knowledge of patient conditions and medications and, for those with very high triglycerides, can help meet the specific needs of the patient by directing [him or her] to the right medication, in addition to the proper diet and lifestyle changes,” Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy Kelly Goode stated regarding the study.

One way to fight triglycerides is with omega-3 fatty acids, which can be obtained from supplements, prescription drugs and such foods as salmon and walnuts. According to the

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A majority of consumers (62%) rank pharmacies and pharmacists high as being good sources of information in helping them manage chronic conditions.

46%

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Details from triglycerides survey

46%

Source: Opinion Research Corp.

for GlaxoSmithKline

By AlAric DeArment

42% of patients are VERY con;dent in their pharmacist’s recommendation regarding overall well-being

43% of patients are SOMEWHAT con;dent in their
pharmacist’s recommendation regarding overall well-being
of patients who take
one to three medicines each day
for their condition(s)

Push for reform to continue at NACDS

By Jim FreDerick at NACDS than we did in 2009.”
In a wide-ranging, exclusive Dec. 17
interview, Anderson recapped the dra-
matic highs and lows of a year dominat-
ed by economic crisis and health reform,
and expressed determination to keep the
lobbying heat on in 2010.

Year 2009, Anderson said, “has really
been a watershed year in telling the story
of pharmacy.” The health-reform debate,
in particular, “has given us an opportu-
nity to be on the field when a lot of people
are in the stands,” he added. “It’s given us
the opportunity to tell the value story of
retail pharmacy ... on Capitol Hill, as we
attempt to lower health costs and improve
patient care. There’s no profession that fits
that bill better than pharmacy ... and if we
don’t tell the story, who’s going to?”
One recent example has been the
largely successful flu vaccination effort
at pharmacies. “Our members did an
amazing job in communicating about
H1N1 and immunizing Americans,” An-
derson noted. To that end, pharmacy re-
tailers successfully cleared away the last
state restrictions on pharmacist-admin-
istered immunizations in 2009. “Maine
was the last state” to change its laws, An-
derson observed. “Now all pharmacies
have the ability to vaccinate.”
54%

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The National Association of Chain Drug Stores promotes community pharmacy as “the face of neighborhood health care.” In 2010, federal and state pol-icy-makers and ordinary Americans will know that face even better, said NACDS president and CEO Steve Anderson.

“Obviously, running a trade organization in an economy like this has been a very unique and historic opportunity,” Anderson told Drug Store News. “And in Washington, in terms of what we do, we’ve probably never had a more challenging, active, but more successful, year

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