Keywords :
Acute Coronary Syndrome/drug therapy/mortality; Adenosine/adverse effects/analogs & derivatives/therapeutic use; Aged; Double-Blind Method; Dyspnea/chemically induced; Electrocardiography; Female; Hemorrhage/chemically induced; Humans; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Myocardial Infarction/mortality; Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors/adverse effects/therapeutic use; Purinergic P2 Receptor Antagonists; Stroke/mortality; Ticlopidine/adverse effects/analogs & derivatives/therapeutic use
Abstract :
[en] BACKGROUND: Ticagrelor is an oral, reversible, direct-acting inhibitor of the adenosine diphosphate receptor P2Y12 that has a more rapid onset and more pronounced platelet inhibition than clopidogrel. METHODS: In this multicenter, double-blind, randomized trial, we compared ticagrelor (180-mg loading dose, 90 mg twice daily thereafter) and clopidogrel (300-to-600-mg loading dose, 75 mg daily thereafter) for the prevention of cardiovascular events in 18,624 patients admitted to the hospital with an acute coronary syndrome, with or without ST-segment elevation. RESULTS: At 12 months, the primary end point--a composite of death from vascular causes, myocardial infarction, or stroke--had occurred in 9.8% of patients receiving ticagrelor as compared with 11.7% of those receiving
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