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SUBMITTER: Lopez-Jaramillo P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5956949 | biostudies-other | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
López-Jaramillo Patricio P González-Gómez Silvia S González-Gómez Silvia S Zarate-Bernal Diego D Serrano Andrés A Atuesta Leonor L Clausen Christian C Castro-Valencia Claudia C Camacho-Lopez Paul P Otero Johanna J
Therapeutic advances in cardiovascular disease 20180316 6
The simplification of fixed dose medications by using a single 'polypill' is an attractive strategy to improve adherence to medications which has shown benefit to cardiovascular risk factor control and cardiovascular disease prevention or delay in the progression of these diseases. We review the evidence obtained from a series of clinical trials demonstrating an improvement in adherence to the polypill compared to the use of each compound separately, and found similar or better control of the cl ...[more]