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Atrial fibrillation (AF)

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of the superiority of warfarin therapy over aspirin. Rates of major hemorrhage were similar in the two groups … alone. The rate of major vascular events was substantially reduced with dual antiplatelet therapy (6.8 …% vs. 7.5% per year;p=0.01) primarily due to a reduction in the rate of stroke (2.4% per year …

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Other clinical issues

5/24/2013

load and150 mg daily thereafter). After 6 months of follow-up, there was no difference in the rate … as observational and retrospective data suggesting diminished antiplatelet efficacy and increased rates of adverse … the postulated interaction, found no difference in the rate of CV death, myocardial infarction, revascularization …

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Stroke

5/24/2013

alone or aspirin plus dipyridamole only; 3 Major bleeding events were not reported; these rates reflect … reveal a significantly lower rate of ischemic events in patients treated with aspirin-clopidogrel than …. Figure 8: Rates of primaery events (composite of death from all vascular causes, non-fatal stroke …

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Recent or remote MI

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, and resulted in a higher rate of bleeding (see below). A subgroup of patients with symptomatic vascular …

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Acute coronary syndromes

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dose clopidogrel in the rate of CV death, MI, or stroke (4.2% vs. 4.4%; p=0.30). However … the rate of CV death, MI, or stroke (3.9% vs. 4.5%; HR 0.86; 95% CI 0.74-0.99; p=0.04). This observed small … to clopidogrel (75 mg daily) in reducing the rate of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, or stroke (13.9 …

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