Around 1 in 6 older adults take aspirin as their primary method of preventing cardiovascular disease – despite stricter ...

Around 1 in 6 older adults take aspirin as their primary method of preventing cardiovascular disease—despite stricter ...

Drug repurposing is undervalued, but it offers potential benefits for patients and healthcare systems, argue Ruth Langley and colleagues Drug repurposing involves finding new indications for ...

Zetia keeps your body from absorbing cholesterol in your diet, and it is generally safe and well-tolerated. So, it’s a good recommendation that has recently had new studies supporting its use. Another ...

The first was current care, in which patients received aspirin 75 mg, lisinopril 10 mg, atenolol 50 mg, and simvastatin 40 mg in separate individual pills at real-world levels of prescription and use.

Aspirin has recently been questioned as a preventive for heart attacks, even though we have been using it for decades. Statin ...

The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2008;42(6):790-805. In patients with mechanical heart valves, the addition of antiplatelet therapy, with low-dose aspirin (75–100 mg daily), to warfarin ...

Cardiovascular disease risk factor control as primary prevention in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus has changed substantially in the past few years. The purpose of this scientific statement is ...

Dabigatran etexilate is a pro-drug, undergoing rapid ester hydrolysis to its active moiety, dabigatran, with no significant CYP 450 metabolism. 1, 115 After oral administration, plasma concentrations ...

Patients undergoing elective coronary stent implantation, receiving aspirin 75 mg/day, and receiving clopidogrel (loading dose 300 mg, followed by maintenance dose 75 mg/day) were randomly ...

In its continued effort to ensure drug safety and compliance, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has ...