More than 7 million people in the UK have cardiovascular disease and 100,000 people Heart attack And over 100,000 Stroke It occurs every year. According to a scholar of the University College London (UCL), NHS can provide thousands of heart attacks and stroke by providing a single polyfill to everyone over 50 years of age.
Published in opinion BmjProviding a single ‘polyfill’ that combines statins and three blood pressure can be a ‘main strategy’ in the promise of labor to prevent disease rather than treating the disease. They said that this program can be used as a pill to reduce cardiovascular risk by age alone. According to them, the program can replace NHS Health check, a five -year evaluation of people between 40 and 74 years old.
According to the author, the new program requires only 8%of people aged 50 or older to gain more health benefits than NHS health checkups. “NHS health checkups don’t work well. The absorption is low, and only four out of 10 people receive an appointment. Many people who will benefit from drugs are not prescribed. In addition, complex risk prediction tools are not very effective. They say who will receive a heart attack or Stroke. This is because most heart attacks and strokes occur in average risk -level people. ”Co -author, Aroon Hingorani (UCL Health Informatics).
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