Researchers Find 3 New Ways To Prevent Heart Attack And Stroke

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Researchers Find 3 New Ways To Prevent Heart Attack And Stroke

Heart attack and stroke are leading causes of death in the U.S., despite many hours and dollars spent researching ways to prevent them. Now, a group of researchers led by Hamilton Health Sciences have come up with three relatively simple measures you can take to prevent heart disease.

The team, from both Hamilton and the Population Health Research Institute of McMaster University, looked at the records for more than 12,000 patients from 21 countries across the world. They evaluated how several drugs fare in preventing cardiovascular diseases (CVD), a group of conditions that lead to 18 million deaths globally each year. The findings included three forms of therapy: statins, antihypertensives, and a combination of the two.

“These are incredibly important findings with potential for significant global impact,” saidDr. Salim Yusuf, principal investigator and executive director of the Population Health Research Institute. “If just 10 percent of the world’s population at intermediate risk of CVD is impacted, we’re talking about 20 to 30 million people who could be helped by these drugs.”

Statins are a group of cholesterol-lowering drugs, and antihypertensives reduce blood pressure. Statins proved to significantly and safely reduce CVD by 25 percent in high risk patients who had not yet experienced a CVD event. Antihypertensives did not actually reduce CVD events in the overall population, but did lower th rate of events in the group of people with hypertension. In combination, the drugs reduced CVD events by 30 percent, and by 40 percent in those with hypertension. The results suggest people struggling with hypertensioncould benefit not only from lowering their blood pressure, but by taking a statin as well.

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