Cheap drugs will benefit from heart attack and stroke

Cheap analogues more expensive drugs called generics, can be a simple, effective and very affordable way to help people suffering from diabetes or heart disease. The combination of the three generic drug groups - statin pills for high blood pressure and low-dose aspirin - reduces the risk of heart attacks and strokes, as it turned out during the study.

"Even the people who took them less than half the allotted time, it is still reduced the risk of heart attacks and strokes   60% - said study author Dr. James Dudley of the California-based company Kaiser Permanente. - And those who took more than half of generics that time, the risk was reduced by 80%. "

The aim of the study was to find inexpensive tools prevention of heart attacks , Heart attacks and strokes in people suffering from heart disease and diabetes. Adults with diabetes are 2-4 times more than other risk transfer heart attack or stroke. Such data are the American Heart Association.

Several recent studies have shown that even the most stringent efforts to control blood sugar levels almost do not help in the prevention of heart attacks and strokes in diabetics. Experts Kaiser Permanente studied 68,560 people suffering from diabetes and heart disease. Every day, they take a combination of medicines, consisting of 40 mg of lovastatin (medicines against cholesterol) and 20 mg of lisinopril (high pressure). These people were also given aspirin in small doses.

In the first year of the experiment, this therapy has helped prevent 1,271 heart attack and stroke.

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