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A polypill may reduce the work of being a patient and may increase adherence to beneficial drugs.
Their wordsEnter the polypill: what if you could take one tablet that had multiple drugs in it? This reduces the work of being a patient and it may even increase adherence to beneficial drugs.
Our reading
The Poly HF trial results may be limited by the highly selected nature of the patient group.
Their wordsThis, I think, is one of the major limitations of polypill data: namely, that you have to be highly selected to be eligible for a polypill.
Their wordsWhat's more. the difference in EF in this trial was only 3%-a number that reached statistical significance, but it's not clinically significant.
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