{"id":1380,"date":"2009-04-16T12:27:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T11:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2009-04-16T12:27:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T11:27:04","slug":"the-pill-pilot-trial-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1380","title":{"rendered":"The PILL pilot trial (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For two weeks now, I&#8217;ve been taking a &#8220;polypill&#8221; each day as part of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strokecenter.org\/trials\/TrialDetail.aspx?tid=896\">a pilot trial<\/a> for the treatment of people at raised risk of cardiovascular disease such as as heart attack or stroke. So this morning, I made my third visit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icch.org.uk\/\">International Centre for Circulatory Health<\/a> at St Mary&#8217;s Hospital at Paddington in London.<br \/>\nFor the third time, I had my blood pressure taken three times and, for the second time, I had a blood sample taken and I was weighed. So far, I have not felt different at all. This either means that I am not experiencing any side effects from the &#8220;polypill&#8221; or that i am not taking the pill at all but a placebo. I won&#8217;t know till the end of the 12-week pilot trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For two weeks now, I&#8217;ve been taking a &#8220;polypill&#8221; each day as part of a pilot trial for the treatment of people at raised risk of cardiovascular disease such as as heart attack or stroke. So this morning, I made my third visit to the International Centre for Circulatory Health at St Mary&#8217;s Hospital at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}