Cost Effectiveness
Wald and Law's analysis predicts major cost savings and productivity gains from a polypill approach. Similarly, the Diabetes / Syndrome X polypill is estimated to save hundreds of billions of dollars.
More importantly, the human cost of these chronic diseases can be substantially reduced. When a person has a stroke, it can ruin his or her quality of life. It also places a major burden on careers. Kidney failure and dialysis (common in end-stage diabetics) is also devastating.
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