Wednesday, January 17, 2007

The Preventive Polypill — Much Promise, Insufficient Evidence

From the New England Journal of Medicine.

Drugs to prevent the need for drugs.

"...some observers have been advocating the concept of a "polypill" — a single pill that would include a number of key drugs...Since current treatment guidelines recommend multiple drugs for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, a polypill would probably be easily accepted for that indication."

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