Editor's Choice
The most important BMJ for 50 years?
BMJ 2003; 326 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.326.7404.0-f (Published 26 June 2003) Cite this as: BMJ 2003;326:0-f
- Richard Smith, editor
I suggest, gentle (or even angry) reader, that you keep this issue of the BMJ. It may well become a collector's item. It's perhaps more than 50 years since we published something as important as the cluster of papers from Nick Wald, Malcolm Law, and others (p 1419, p 1423, and p 1427).
They argue convincingly that a pill with six ingredients could prevent 80% of heart attacks (or other events caused by ischaemic heart disease) and strokes. Anybody with cardiovascular disease would take the pill, and so would everybody from 55—without any investigation. As …