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: attack or stroke. Patients with a known history of heart disease and also those who have had a stroke can simply take just one pill, instead of popping all the four, states Cidambi.

Meanwhile, hectic efforts by drug companies to push polypills into the national health programmes to reach the masses does not seem to be cutting ice with the government.

“There is very little effort by the government agencies to use polypills as part of the public-health system,” says a senior scientist at a leading drug company. “All the four ingredients going into the pill are recommended therapy for people who had an heart attack or a stroke,’’ says Cidambi, adding, these are approved safe drugs in use that have been already proven for safety and efficacy.

It is seen that research undertaken now focused predominantly on the use of a polypill for secondary prevention after a heart attack.

Going forward, future research will most likely target use for primary prevention in populations where individuals are at high risk because of increasingly urbanised lifestyles and greater age, but are currently without overt health problems.