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WASHINGTON — Many patients who have heart disease or who have suffered a stroke don’t take their medications as regularly as prescribed. One study shows that a number of stroke patients stop taking their pills within three months after having a . A new study in Britain finds that if patients with heart disease can take a single pill instead of several pills, they are more likely to stay on their medication.
Patients at risk for (1) or (2) may be taking a lot of pills. Some could (3) blood pressure. Other pills could control cholesterol. Still others might be prescribed to prevent a heart attack.
Henryk Pycz, who has both high blood pressure and diabetes, participated in a study to see if he could do better in managing his health by reducing the number of pills he had to take.
"When I was taking the medication consisting of a variety of tablets, I'd have either five, six or seven tablets to take," he said.
Dr. Simon Thom, from the National Heart and Lung Institute at the Imperial College in London, knew it was hard for patients to (4) all those medications.
"We know there's a big shortfall in the (5) and continued usage of preventative medication, particularly in lower middle income countries," he said.
Dr. Thom led a study that involved more than 2,000 patients. Almost 90 percent of them had suffered a stroke or had heart disease. The other 10 percent had a high risk of having one. Half of the participants received a combination daily medication known as a polypill that contained statins, blood pressure medication and another drug like aspirin to prevent blood clots. The other participants were told to continue taking their regular medications. Dr. Thom says the results clearly (6) the polypill.
“More patients at the end of the trial were taking indicated medications in the form of the fixed dose (7) polypill than were in the usual care group,” he said.
The patients who took the polypill had improvements in control of both blood pressure and cholesterol. Pycz said he also learned something.
"It helped me to understand that controlling your medication is important. The polypill meant that I was never out of sync I always had the correct amount of tablets to take,” he said.
Dr. Thom says the study has (8), especially for those who skip their medications.
“The polypill has a big public health opportunity to (9) of under usage of indicated and effective therapeutic medication,” he said.
Dr. Thom says that's because those who made the biggest gains in taking in taking their medications as prescribed were the ones who were most likely to skip them at the (10).
The study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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词汇解释
esteroln. [生化] 胆固醇
Scientists have established a connection between cholesterol levels and heart disease.
科学家已证实胆固醇含量与心脏病之间有关联。
2.shortfalln. 差额;缺少
There will soon be a shortfall in supply of qualified young people.
合格年轻人才的短缺将很快出现。
rinn. 阿司匹林(解热镇痛药)
She dosed him with non-aspirin tablets to reduce the fever.
她让他服用非阿司匹林药片降温退烧。
ication n. 含义;暗示;牵连，卷入;可能的结果，影响
The Attorney General was aware of the political implications of his decision to prosecute.
总检察长知道自己起诉的决定可能引起的政治后果。
apeuticadj. 治疗的;治疗学的;有益于健康的`
They hustled Jeanne to accept their therapeutic plan.
他们强迫珍妮接受他们的治疗方案。
内容解析
polypill meant that I was never out of sync I always had the correct amount of tablets to take.
out of sync 不同步
The film's sound-trackis out of sync with the picture.
这部影片的声迹与图像不同步。
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