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“I’m a skeptic of the one-size-fits-all, four-drugs-for-everyone approach,” said Dr. Steven E. Nissen, head of the department of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. “It runs counter to what most of us in the U. S. consider good medical practice. ” Simple tests, including cholesterol tests that use only a finger prick, are available, he noted. Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and now the president of Resolve to Save Lives, an organization that seeks cardiac blood tests to lower worldwide cardiac deaths, said he thought a four-drug pill like the one used in the study was appropriate only for people who had suffered a cardiac event. Some blood pressure medications are safe enough to give to untested people, he said. But aspirin, which can cause bleeding in the brain, is not; and statins, which can, in rare cases, cause liver and muscle damage, may not be. The Iran study was conducted by doctors from Tehran University, the University of Birmingham in Britain and other institutions.

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