{"id":5789,"date":"2011-05-26T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5789"},"modified":"2011-05-26T12:00:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T11:00:27","slug":"how-to-reduce-the-risk-of-a-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5789","title":{"rendered":"How to reduce the risk of a heart disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For three months in early 2009, I took part in an international trial of something called the &#8220;polypill&#8221; to test its efficacy in combating heart disease. The pill contains aspirin 75 mg, simvastatin 20 mg, lisinopril 10 mg and hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 mg. I blogged regularly about my experience with a concluding post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1466\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The result of the international trial has now been published and is very encouraging &#8211; if not quite as dramatic as some originally hoped. The once-a-day tablet has been shown to halve the  risk of heart disease and stroke in those who take it, opening the way  to a simple form of global mass preventative medication. You can read more about the outcome of the trial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2011\/may\/25\/single-pill-for-heart-disease?INTCMP=SRCH\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For three months in early 2009, I took part in an international trial of something called the &#8220;polypill&#8221; to test its efficacy in combating heart disease. The pill contains aspirin 75 mg, simvastatin 20 mg, lisinopril 10 mg and hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 mg. I blogged regularly about my experience with a concluding post here. The result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789","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=5789"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5794,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions\/5794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}