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Thursday, November 05, 2015

More Americans Than Ever Use Prescription Drugs

More Americans than ever are taking prescription drugs — close to 60 percent of U.S. adults, according to new research.

And most seem to be related to obesity, with cholesterol and blood pressure drugs leading the pack, researchers report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The single most popular drug is Zocor, a cholesterol-lowering drug in a class called statins, said Elizabeth Kantor, formerly of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, and now at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The drug, known generically as simvastatin, is taken by 8 percent of the U.S. population.

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4 comments:

  1. Wages are to low to eat healthy.

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  2. Yep and I love it. Thank God or I would have committed suicide. You have no idea how much pain I live in.

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  3. they use more Prescriptions due to the pharmaceutical co giving kick back to some doctors to use there pills. people are not treated anymore they are just a test dummy for the drug co. i have never seen more doctors push pills down peoples then i have ever seen to bad they are not treated for there problem and not just doped up

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    1. Is there a pill that improves grammar? I would recommend it in your case.

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