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Drug duo may reduce heart attacks and strokes

Source: Los Angeles Times

Chicago : IL : USA | 2 months ago

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But how to keep patients taking their dosages? An inexpensive combination of one drug to lower cholesterol and one to lower blood pressure can reduce the incidence of heart attacks and strokes by as much as 60% -- but getting patients to begin the regimen and then to stay on it is an extremely difficult...

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Drug duo may reduce heart attacks and strokes

News Source: Los Angeles Times | 2 months ago

But how to keep patients taking their dosages? An inexpensive combination of one drug to lower cholesterol and one to lower blood pressure can reduce the incidence of heart attacks and strokes by as much as 60% -- but getting patients to begin the...
Cheap three-drug combination helps cut heart risks

News Source: Reuters | 2 months ago

High-risk patients who took a combination of three older heart drugs -- a generic statin, a generic blood pressure pill and a low-dose aspirin -- cut their risk of a heart attack or stroke by as much as 80 percent, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
Businessweek: Health-Care Savings Without Reform

News Source: Androscoggin News | 2 months ago

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