Combination of drugs could prevent thousands of heart attacks

Patients who receive an add-on medication soon after a heart attack have a significantly better prognosis than those who receive it later, or not all.

This is according to a new study from researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Imperial College London. The findings suggest that treating patients earlier with a combination of statins and the cholesterol-lowering drug ezetimibe could prevent thousands of new heart attacks over a decade.

Cardiovascular disease is by far the most common…

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News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

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