A study suggests a potentially effective way to improve the cardiovascular health of poor and minority Americans: Give them a daily pill with low doses of several heart medicines.
“The polypill gives vulnerable patients a running start” toward better health, said study lead authorThe study didn’t last long enough to measure heart attacks or strokes. A five-yearof a different polypill, involving 6,800 people in Iran, found it lowered the danger of heart attack, stroke or heart failure by a third.
But doctors often fail to customize medications because they don’t have time and patients dislike return visits., funded by the American Heart Assn. and the National Institutes of Health, was published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.Dr. Sidney Smith Most people in the study earned less than $15,000 a year, and 96% were black. All had at least borderline high blood pressure. People were excluded from the study if their LDL cholesterol was too high, which would require more aggressive treatment.
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