prevents heart deaths

"polypill"reduces deaths from heart disease- studies

prevents heart deaths

"polypilA single pill that combines three heart disease significantly reduces cardiac-related deathl"reduces deaths from heart disease- studies

prevents heart deaths

Results for the "polypill" were so compelling - a 24% eduction in deaths related to heart disease or further heart problems

prevents heart deaths

researchers plan to submit the data to the Food and Drug Administration for approval, said the study's lead author, Dr. Valentin Fuster

prevents heart deaths

Study's lead author, Dr. Valentin Fuster, the director of Mount Sinai Heart and physician-in-chief of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

prevents heart deaths

"The results were, frankly, very exciting," said Fuster, who presented the findings on Friday at a meeting of the European Society of Cardiology in Barcelona, Spain.

prevents heart deaths

The idea of the polypill as a treatment for heart disease is not new; Researchers have been working on this idea for two decades

prevents heart deaths

A separate study published in 2020 found that a polypill with four drugs reduced the risk of earlier heart attacks and strokes in people who were at risk of such problems.

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Salim Yusuf, lead author of the 2020 study and a cardiologist and professor of medicine at McMaster University in Ontario, said the new research confirms that a polypill would provide "substantial" benefits.