{"id":198896,"date":"2024-11-07T17:22:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T23:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/first-drug-to-prevent-heart-disease-is-approved"},"modified":"2024-11-07T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T23:22:36","slug":"first-drug-to-prevent-heart-disease-is-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/first-drug-to-prevent-heart-disease-is-approved","title":{"rendered":"First Drug to Prevent Heart Disease Is Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-drug-to-prevent-heart-disease-is-approved2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doctors have long known that inflammation plays a significant role in triggering heart attacks and strokes. Now for the first time, an anti-inflammatory drug is on the market to prevent these cardiovascular events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a game changer,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhhospitals.org\/doctors\/Neeland-Ian-1285818740\">Ian Neeland, MD<\/a>, Director of Cardiovascular Prevention at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhhospitals.org\/services\/heart-and-vascular-services\">University Hospitals Harrington Heart &amp; Vascular Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve known that low-grade, systemic inflammation is a powerful determinant of recurrent cardiovascular events. Colchicine is the first drug we have on the market for inflammation that reduces this risk,\u201d says Dr. Neeland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors have long known that inflammation plays a significant role in triggering heart attacks and strokes. Now for the first time, an anti-inflammatory drug is on the market to prevent these cardiovascular events. \u201cIt is a game changer,\u201d says Ian Neeland, MD, Director of Cardiovascular Prevention at University Hospitals Harrington Heart &amp; Vascular Institute. \u201cWe\u2019ve [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}