Clopidogrel Versus Aspirin For Long-term Main...

ecent advancements in echocardiography since ACC.25 highlight a shift toward greater precision, efficiency, and consistency in cardiac imaging. Standardized echo reporting is now recognized as a key marker of quality care, improving communication and supporting more reliable clin ...  Show more

The "Food is Medicine" approach is central to cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention because diet directly shapes key risk factors, making nutrition a powerful, modifiable intervention. Medically tailored meals (MTMs) are fully prepared, condition-specific meals prescribed to me ...  Show more

 In this week’s View, Dr. Eagle discusses the value of the balloon pulmonary angioplasty procedure for patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. He then reviews the sub analysis of the HOST EXAM trial assessing the benefit of aspirin versus clopidogrel as a mai ...  Show more

Millions of us take aspirin daily to ward off heart attack or stroke, but a new study has found an alternative blood thinner, clopidogrel, could be more effective. We find out how it compares.An oral health check-up at least two weeks before surgery has shown to reduce the risk o ...  Show more

N Engl J Med 1993;328:673-679Background: Previous trials established that thrombolysis improves mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction, as seen in the GISSI-1 and ISIS-2 trials. However, thrombolysis has limitations, including an increased risk of bleeding and the ...  Show more

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Background Large trials up to this point had established the role of thr ...