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View Post: Clopidogrel in men vs women
10 Nov 2009
Among the 23 533 women enrolled, the risk reduction with clopidogrel seemed to be greatest for MI, with the effects on stroke or death not statistically significant. Among the 56 091 men enrolled, the risk reduction was significant for ...
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View Post: The Relative Efficacy and Safety of Clopidogrel in Women and Men ...
16 Nov 2009 by Jeffrey S. Berger, Deepak L. Bhatt, Christopher...  
The relative efficacy and safety of clopidogrel at reducing cardiovascular events (cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction [MI], or stroke) in women and men was estimated using random-effects modeling. ...
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View Post: Prilosec Interferes With Plavix Blood-Clotting Effect, FDA Warns ...
17 Nov 2009 by timgrenda  
Patients at risk of heart attack or stroke who take Plavix (clopidogrel) will not get the full effect of the drug if they also are taking a Prilosec product (omeprazole), the FDA said. “This effect is called a drug interaction and it ...
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View Post: Efient(R) Exhibited Greater Antiplatelet Activity than High Dose ...
15 Nov 2009
of age or older. For the patients in TRITON-TIMI 38 without these risk factors, the efficacy of prasugrel compared with clopidogrel on the primary composite endpoint of CVD, nonfatal MI, or nonfatal stroke was 8.3 percent vs. ...
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View Post: FindLaw's Common Law: Public Health Advisory: Drug Interaction ...
20 Nov 2009 by FindLaw Staff  
Clopidogrel (Plavix) is a medication taken by heart attack or stroke patients to aid anticoagulation and prevent further clotting of the blood. Omeprazole (Prilosec) is commonly taken by prescription and over the counter to treat ...
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View Post: PLAVIX IN MEN VS. WOMEN
12 Nov 2009 by Dr. NICK  
Results showed that in the overall population, clopidogrel was associated with a highly significant 14% proportional reduction in the risk of cardiovascular events (cardiovascular death, MI, or stroke), with no significant differences ...
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View Post: BMJ Group blogs: Heart JournalScan » Blog Archive » Clopidogrel ...
21 Jun 2009 by Alistair Lindsay  
The difference was predominantly due to a reduction in the rate of stroke with clopidogrel – stroke occurred in 296 patients in the dual anti-platelet therapy arm (2.4%/year) versus 408 placebo patients (3.3%/year), (RR 0.72, ...
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View Post: Don't mix Clopidogrel with Omeprazole!
17 Nov 2009 by Jimbo  
... a public health advisory warning patients and physicians that concomitant use of clopidogrel (Plavix) and omeprazole (Omez) blunts the antiplatelet effect of clopidogrel, thus increasing the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke. ...
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View Post: AHA: Ticagrelor found beneficial in STEMI subset of PLATO ...
15 Nov 2009 by Larry Husten  
The primary endpoint of MI, stroke or vascular death was reduced from 11% in the clopidogrel group to 9.3% in the ticagrelor group. Overall mortality was reduced from 6% to 4.9%. Definite stent thrombosis was reduced from 2.6% in the ...
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