Table 5.

The main barriers preventing from achieving risk factors reduction (total n= 125)

Barriers	Frequency	%
Medical setting barriers	30	24.0
Patient related barriers	28	22.4
Community and societal barriers	21	16.8
Knowledge barriers	20	16.0
Mixed barriers	14	11.2
Systemic and organizational barriers	12	9.6

The main barriers toward prevention, data of total 125 participants in the descriptive cross sectional study (people's knowledge about coronary heart disease, their attitude towards prevention and main risk reduction barriers), Ismailia, Egypt, 2010