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Single ‘polypill’ found to cut heart attacks, stroke – NBC News
Heart attack and stroke prevention polypill could reduce heart disease risks. Side effects of blood pressure and cholesterol medications.
A single pill that combines four medications meant to lower blood pressure and cholesterol plus an aspirin may cut the risk for the nation’s No. 1 killer: heart disease.
That finding is the result of a large new study presented Friday at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association and published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The more pills heart patients must take, the less they are to comply, according to Dr. Salim Yusuf, a cardiologist and the study’s lead author….
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