“Polypill” to fight cardiovascular disease: Universal polypharmacy goes against recent beliefs in prescribing practice

doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.807-b

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Mark Powlson (powlson7@aol.com), managing editor Prescribers' Journal

Bedford MK41 7DY

EDITOR—Your advocacy of universal polypharmacy—as evidenced by the paper by Wald and Law1—is somewhat against recent beliefs in prescribing practice. Has there been sufficient emphasis on the fact that the proposal is a theoretical construct (admittedly enticing), based on extrapolation of data from many disparate studies, rather than on a trial itself? Indeed, why bother with new trials …