Study: Some heart patients undoing drug benefits

Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 15:35 in Health & Medicine

(AP) -- European heart patients are taking more medication than ever before to lower their blood pressure and cholesterol, but bad habits such as overeating and smoking are undermining the drugs, a new study says. Despite big increases in heart patients on medication, most still have high blood pressure and nearly half have high cholesterol.

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