Washington: A new study has found that over 30% people are afraid of taking pills daily to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD) that they rather opt for a shorter life.
The study conducted by American Heart Association, analysed people with an average age of 50 and established that more than 8% of people were willing to trade almost 2 years of their life to avoid taking daily medication for cardiovascular disease, whereas 21% would trade between one week and a year of their lives.
In addition to people who were ready to keep their lives at stake, there were around 21 % of people who said they would pay 1,000 dollar or more to avoid taking a pill each day for the rest of their lives.
There were around 70% of participants who were not interested to trade any weeks of their lives to avoid taking a CVD pill daily, and 62% weren’t willing to gamble any risk of immediate death.
Robert Hutchins, M.D., M.P.H., lead author said the act of having pills on daily basis can have a large effect on an individual’s quality of life, and even a small reductions in quality of life like those found in this study, can have very large effects on the cost-effectiveness of that drug for a population.