A three-year study of 170,024 patients has found that two low-cost medications – one for lowering cholesterol and one for lowering blood pressure – taken for two years reduced their risk of having a heart attack or stroke by more than 60% for the following year.
The patients were divided into three groups at the start of the study. The high-exposure group was composed of 21,292 patients. They took both medications (40 milligrams of lovastatin and 20 milligrams of lisinopril)...
