HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Thousands of lives saved are cheap generic alone in Sweden

A major new international study, the researchers from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital showed that aspirin, statins, beta-blockers, and ACE inhibitors are much too rarely required. They are cheap, preventive drugs that could prevent a large number of deaths from heart attacks and strokes.
The result of research collaboration by 17 countries, who study in the highly revered medical journal is published in the Lancet.
The study shows aspirin, Statins (cholesterol-lowering drug), beta blockers and ACE inhibitors as drugs, that should be used far more often.
"That has exhausted the patent where, are generic preparations," says Annika Rosengren, Professor of medicine at the Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University and consultant at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. "they're cheap, and proven and effective, and there is no reason that they much more frequently patients prescribe, in the zone." "In Sweden alone they have saved thousands of lives per year."
The results come from a major international study with more than 150,000 adults in low, medium and high income countries around the world. Only a quarter of those, the heart attack or stroke would have suffered aspirin (or similar), only one-fifth had beta blockers, and only a seventh drugs reduce your cholesterol taken had. The lowest figures came from countries with low income. The study also shows that women of less often than men these medicines.
"The results indicate a genuine need systematic car to understand why these cheap drugs are insufficiently used worldwide", says Professor Salim Yusuf of McMaster University in Canada, who led the study. "This is a global tragedy and provides a massive missed opportunity to help millions of people with cardiovascular disease at a very low cost."
The pure study (potential urban rural epidemiology study) 17 countries are: Canada, Sweden, U.A.E., Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Malaysia, Poland, South Africa, Turkey, China, Colombia, Iran, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Zimbabwe.
Articles from medical news today adapted from original press release.

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