Bundling 2 low-cost heart drugs prevents heart attack and stroke in large, diverse population
Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 17:56
in Health & Medicine
October 1, 2009 (Oakland, Calif.) -- A program that bundled two generic, low-cost drugs -- a cholesterol-lowering statin and a blood pressure-lowering drug -- and gave daily doses to 68,560 people with diabetes or heart disease for two years is estimated to have prevented 1,271 heart attacks and strokes in the first year following the study period, according to a Kaiser Permanente study publ