{"id":211399,"date":"2025-04-14T13:16:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T18:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/combination-of-two-cheap-drugs-could-save-lives-after-heart-attack-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-04-14T13:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T18:16:02","slug":"combination-of-two-cheap-drugs-could-save-lives-after-heart-attack-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/combination-of-two-cheap-drugs-could-save-lives-after-heart-attack-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Combination of two cheap drugs could save lives after heart attack, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/combination-of-two-cheap-drugs-could-save-lives-after-heart-attack-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/imperialcollegelondon\">Imperial College London<\/a> and Lund University in Sweden found that by giving heart attack patients two drugs together \u2013 statins and ezetimibe, a cholesterol-lowering drug \u2013 their risk of another heart attack, stroke or death was reduced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis study shows that we could save lives and reduce further heart attacks by giving patients a combination of two low-cost drugs,\u201d said Prof Kausik Ray, of Imperial\u2019s School of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>But at the moment patients across the world aren\u2019t receiving these drugs together. That is causing unnecessary and avoidable heart attacks and deaths \u2013 and also places unnecessary costs on healthcare systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Imperial College London and Lund University in Sweden found that by giving heart attack patients two drugs together \u2013 statins and ezetimibe, a cholesterol-lowering drug \u2013 their risk of another heart attack, stroke or death was reduced. \u201cThis study shows that we could save lives and reduce further heart attacks by giving patients [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211399","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=211399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}