Date: 6/15/2011
TUMSPR News: Dr. Tom Marshall, one of the executive collaborators of Polypill project in Digestive Disease Research Center, visited the center on June 8, 2011.
Based on the news by the Public Relations of the Digestive Diseases Research Center, affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Dr. Tom Marshall, an epidemiologist and biostatistician from the University of Birmangham , UK and a public health planning fellow in the U.S. visited the Center on a 6-day trip to Iran from June 8 to 13, 2011.
Preventing chronic diseases in high risk populations is among the main health priorities. Strategies for primary and secondary prevention include controlling risk factors (e.g. hypertension and dyslipidemia) and prescribing medications. Regarding medications, instead of separate pills that are already prescribed to millions of people, a combination of pills, Polypill, has been developed. One kind of these medications is currently in use by individuals over 50 in Golestan province in a cohort study.
Dr. Tom Marshall, the head of the Research Center, Dr. Malekzadeh, and the executive board, travelled to Gonbad Kavous, the main site of Polypill research project, to oversee the recruitment of eligible subjects, which would be completed within one year and half, the follow-up phase of the study which would last for 5 years; holding sessions in Aq Ghola district to recruit colleagues among the physicians and health-care workers there. The group visited the Cardiovascular Research Center in Isfahan which is one of the collaborating centers in the project.
The Digestive Disease Research Center aims to conduct this project in two other areas: Aq Ghola and Kolaleh.
http://publicrelations.tums.ac.ir/english/news/detail.asp?newsID=25238
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