‘Polypill could avoid millions of premature deaths, heart attacks and strokes’

According to two leading cardiologists, widespread availability of the drugs would substantially reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and be affordable for most people around the world.

A combination of medications to treat high blood pressure and high cholesterol could prevent millions of premature deaths, heart attacks and strokes each year, experts have said (PA)

A combination of medications to treat high blood pressure and high cholesterol could prevent millions of premature deaths, heart attacks and strokes each year, experts have said.

They suggest global health has paid a deadly price for not using simple, low-cost blood pressure lowering drugs, statins and aspirin widely in the form of a single tablet known as the polypill.