Grand Rounds: "The Polypill: A Major Opportunity to Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes"

Learning Objectives

• Understand the quantitative relationship between blood pressure, cholesterol and age in determining risk of heart attacks and stroke.


• Describe how important reversible causal risk factors for heart attacks and strokes are poor predictors of these disorders.


• Discuss the rationale and evidence for the Polypill approach in the prevention of heart attacks and strokes.