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ParagonDx wins FDA approval to sell test
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The product tests patients' DNA for sensitivity to warfarin, a blood thinner used to treat patients who have had a stroke or a heart attack. ...
ParagonDx product receives approval News & Observer
ParagonDx Receives FDA 510(k) Marketing Clearance for Warfarin ... Business Wire (press release)
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Study says FDA allowed risky tests of blood substitutes
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Aggressive use of drugs to lower cholesterol and blood pressure helped reverse heart disease in people with diabetes, US researchers said. ...
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Or the clot can remain as is and block blood flow forever. The legs have a surplus of veins, and blood can take alternate routes to get back to the heart. ...
Heparin Contamination Fiasco Reveals Dirty Secret of Drug Industry ...
Natural News.com, AZ - May 1, 2008
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Kawasaki Disease sends mother and son on a journey of hope
Independent and Free Press, Canada - Apr 13, 2008
He is on four types of medication including aspirin, lipitor (typically used to reduce cholesterol) and coumidin, a blood thinner. He will be on heart ...

Dallas Morning News
Rockwall woman makes rare gains by living without heart device
Dallas Morning News, TX - Apr 28, 2008
Still, the heart pump did its job, even as she battled pneumonia in late January. Another complication, an allergic reaction to a blood thinner, ...
Bristol Heart Institute scientist wins Young Investigator prize
HULIQ (press release), NC - Apr 9, 2008
This leads to a reduction in size of the lumen of the artery, and limits blood flow to the heart. Atherosclerotic plaques come in two varieties ? stable and ...
Blindly Navigating a Maze of Bureaucracy, Depression, and Suicide
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Treatment of Blood Clots -
SZ Goldhaber, N Grasso-Correnti - Circulation, 2002 - Am Heart Assoc
... oral antiplatelet agents), intravenous antiplatelet agents, heparin (a blood thinner
and anticoagulant ... tablet (325 mg) at the onset of heart attack symptoms can ...

Weight Change and Risk of Heart Attack in Middle-Aged British Men -
M WALKER, G WANNAMETHEE, PH WHINCUP, AG SHAPER - International Journal of Epidemiology, 1995 - IEA
... After further adjustment for those risk factors known to be associated with heart
attack and with weight change (systolic blood pressure, total choles- terol ...

Prevention of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism -
SZ Goldhaber, J Fanikos - Circulation, 2004 - Am Heart Assoc
... clinics have evolved to provide patients with expert dosing of this blood thinner. ...
although quite effective for reducing the risk of heart attack or stroke, is ...

[BOOK] Type A Behavior and Your Heart
M Friedman, RH Rosenman - 1974 - Fawcett

Lay constructions of a family history of heart disease: potential for misunderstandings in the … -
K Hunt, C Emslie, G Watt - The Lancet, 2001 - Elsevier
... I say it could be hereditary, in the blood there, it ... I think I said just because
of the thinner side I ... woman with a perceived family history of heart disease). ...

Overweight, Weight Loss, and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Older Women The NHANES I … -
TB Harris, R Ballard-Barbasch, J Madans, DM Makuc, … - American Journal of Epidemiology, 1993 - Oxford Univ Press
... and to have higher sys- tolic blood pressures and ... Thinner women were more likely
to have undergone weight ... Overweight and risk of coronary heart disease for all ...

Platelets and Cardiovascular Disease -
D Gregg, PJ Goldschmidt-Clermont - Circulation, 2003 - Am Heart Assoc
... to block blood flow, which may result in a heart attack or stroke. ... caused by drug
therapy, particularly with the intravenous blood thinner heparin (heparin ...

Angioplasty Versus Bypass Surgery for Coronary Artery Disease -
AD Michaels, K Chatterjee - Circulation, 2002 - Am Heart Assoc
... death by reducing the risk of heart attack, stroke, and ... the amount of oxygen the
heart requires and ... will be treated with a blood thinner (typically clopidogrel ...

[PDF] Arginine Solution
R Fried, WC Merrell - 2000 - greathealth-tour.com
... It's a powerful anticoagulant, or blood thinner, that helps prevent blood platelets
from clumping together into the clots that can cause heart attack and stroke ...

Gender in the Pharmacy: Does It Matter? -
J Kaiser - Science, 2005 - sciencemag.org
... Journal of Medicine (NEJM) that aspirin--which protects men against heart attack
but not ... be given in very precise doses, such as the blood thinner warfarin and ...

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Adding blood thinners doesn't prevent heart attack

Last Updated: 2007-07-19 13:54:45 -0400 (Reuters Health)

By Gene Emery

BOSTON - Two drugs are not always better than one when it comes to using blood thinners used to treat clogged arteries in the legs, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.

They found that adding a blood thinner, such as warfarin, to daily clot-preventing drugs, such as aspirin, is no better -- and sometimes more dangerous -- for preventing heart attacks, strokes and other circulatory problems in people with peripheral artery disease.

About 1 in 16 people over 40 have some degree of clogging in the arteries outside their heart. These 8.5 million in the United States face a higher risk of death from heart disease.

 

 

Doctors have known for years that antiplatelet drugs, such as aspirin, reduce that risk.

Because blood thinners are used to treat clots that develop from peripheral artery disease, researchers thought adding them to the mix might cut the risk further.

The new study in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that such hopes are unfounded.

Results from 2,161 volunteers treated at 80 medical centers in seven countries demonstrate that adding the second drug had virtually no effect on the risk of heart attack, stroke, a severe clot outside the heart, or death from any type of heart disease.

The rates were 15.9 percent in the combination group and 17.4 percent in the antiplatelet-only group, an insignificant difference.

However, 4 percent of the people getting combination therapy suffered life-threatening bleeding, compared with just 1.2 percent getting an antiplatelet drug.

"Treating 1,000 patients with combination therapy as compared with antiplatelet therapy alone for three years would lead to 24 fewer cardiovascular events but 28 more episodes of life-threatening bleeding, resulting in a net increase in serious adverse outcomes," said the research team, led by Sonia Anand of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

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