Bundling Two Low-cost Heart Drugs Prevents Heart Attack And Stroke In Large, Diverse Population
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 22:21
in Health & Medicine
A new study found that bundling two generic, low-cost drugs -- a cholesterol-lowering statin and a blood pressure-lowering drug -- and giving daily doses to 68,560 people with diabetes or heart disease for two years prevented 1,271 heart attacks and strokes. The clinical observational study followed 170,024 ethnically diverse Californians and found that offering lovastatin and lisinopril daily for two years reduced risk of hospitalization for heart attack or stroke by more than 60 percent.