{"id":75789,"date":"2018-02-06T02:02:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T10:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/promising-drug-combo-nearly-halves-stroke-risk-says-new-report"},"modified":"2018-02-06T02:02:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T10:02:26","slug":"promising-drug-combo-nearly-halves-stroke-risk-says-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/promising-drug-combo-nearly-halves-stroke-risk-says-new-report","title":{"rendered":"Promising Drug Combo Nearly Halves Stroke Risk Says New Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/promising-drug-combo-nearly-halves-stroke-risk-says-new-report2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Summary: A new report provides good news for warding off stroke and hardening of the arteries, two diseases of aging. Combining blood-pressure-lowering drugs with cholesterol-lowering medications reduced first-time strokes by 44%, according to a report by the AHA\/ASA. [This article first appeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/about\/\">website <a href=\"http:\/\/LongevityFacts.com\">LongevityFacts.com<\/a><\/a>. Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman.<\/a> ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stroke is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/stroke\/index.htm\">fifth leading cause of death<\/a> in the US and a disease of aging that grows more prevalent with each birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a report says a new drug regimen promises to cut that risk nearly in half.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/drug-combo-nearly-halves-stroke-risk-report\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/drug-combo-nearly-halves-stroke-risk-report\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: A new report provides good news for warding off stroke and hardening of the arteries, two diseases of aging. Combining blood-pressure-lowering drugs with cholesterol-lowering medications reduced first-time strokes by 44%, according to a report by the AHA\/ASA. [This article first appeared on the website LongevityFacts.com. Author: Brady Hartman. ] Stroke is the fifth leading [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75789","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\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}