The other participants were told to continue taking their regular medications. Dr. Thom says the results clearly favored the polypill.

其他的参加者被告知继续服用常规的药物。托姆博士说结果明显表明多效药丸更好。

The patients who took the polypill had improvements in control of both blood pressure and cholesterol. Pycz said he also learned something.

那些服用多效药丸的病人在控制血压和胆固醇方面都有改善，Pycz说自己学到一些东西。

A polypill is the integration of multiple medications into a single pill.

复方药丸是将多种药物整合到一个药丸中。

I think one of the solutions is to make better use of the polypill.

我认为解决方案之一是更好地利用复方药丸。

But these polypills weren't personalized, they weren't optimized to the individual.

但是这些复方药丸不是个性化的， 它们没有针对个人进行优化。

“The polypill has a big public health opportunity to bridge the gap of under usage of indicated and effective therapeutic medication, ” he said.

“多效药丸带来了巨大的公共卫生机会，来弥合用药不足和有效使用治疗性药物的缺口。”

I now pull out my personalized printed polypill, with the doses and medications meant for me.

我现在拿出我的个性化印刷复方药丸，里面有适合我的剂量和药物。

Half of the participants received a combination daily medication known as a polypill that contained statins, blood pressure medication and another drug like aspirin to prevent blood clots.

一半的参加者得到名为多效药丸的复合日常用药，含有抑制素、血压药和另一种很像阿司匹林的用于预防血液阻塞的药物。

“More patients at the end of the trial were taking indicated medications in the form of the fixed dose combination polypill than were in the usual care group, ” he said.

“在试验的最后阶段，与常规用药的小组相比，那些服用多效药丸小组的病人有更多人根据医嘱服药。”