Uma combinação de 4 medicamentos já conhecidos em doses reduzidas teve resultados muito positivos e sem efeitos secundários dignos de registo (muito importante para tratamentos a longo prazo com este tipo de medicação):
http://m.indiatoday.in/story/now-four-in-one-pill-to-treat-high-blood-pressure/1/879831.html
Citando:
"Over four weeks 18 patients in Sydney were either given a quadpill - a single capsule containing four of the most commonly used blood pressure-lowering drugs each at a quarter dose - or a placebo.
This was then repeated for a further four weeks with the patients swapping their course of treatment.
Blood pressure levels were measured hourly over a 24 hour period at the end of each treatment, allowing researchers to significantly reduce the amount of patients normally required in a clinical trial.
As many as 100 per cent of patients on trial saw their blood levels drop below 140 over 90. Just 33 per cent of patients on the placebo achieved this rate.
None of the patients experienced side effects commonly associated with hypertension lowering drugs, which can vary from swollen ankles to kidney abnormalities depending on the type of class of the drug.
"What makes these results even more exciting is that these four blood pressure medications are already in use. We are increasingly finding there are opportunities to treat many commons diseases hiding in plain sight. This ultimately means we will be able to deliver life changing medications much more quickly, and more affordably," "
