Heart Disease Pill Promising

The 'polypill' has been an idea circulating around the industry for years now. The idea is a generic inexpensive pill that combines aspirin, blood pressure medicine and cholesterol pill in a single daily tablet to prevent heart attack and heart disease. The idea had been shunned by many, and completely rejected by some physicians. Some experts assumed rolling numerous pills into one would cause five times more side effects and do more harm than good. Yahoo News released the report about the possibility of this new wonder drug, "The approach needs far more testing - as well as approval from the Food and Drug Administration, something that could take years - but it could make heart disease prevention much more common and more effective, doctors say. Collectively, the results show the polypill could cut the risk of heart disease by 62 percent and the risk of stroke by 48 percent, based on what previous studies show from lowering risk factors by these amounts, the study concludes." Although this is great progress, a larger more all encompassing study must be done, similarly the FDA must put its stamp of approval before anything is distributed to potential patients. Coupling such medicines with regular yearly heart scans, may hopefully prove to be a viable way of preventing heart disease.