Platelets, carotids, and coronaries: Critique on antithrombotic role of antiplatelet agents, exercise, and certain diets

Edward R. Eichner

doi:10.1016/0002-9343(84)90113-X

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Platelets, carotids, and coronaries

Critique on antithrombotic role of antiplatelet agents, exercise, and certain diets

Edward R. Eichner, M.D.
Edward R. Eichner
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Abstract

“Antiplatelet” drugs and certain life styles seem to have an “antithrombotic” effect that may help protect against stroke and heart attack. This review of the experience with aspirin, dipyridamole, and sulfinpyrazone offers new interpretations of some of the major clinical trials, suggests guidelines for use of antiplatelet drugs, and integrates novel observations on diet and exercise into the “thromboxane-prostacyclin balance” hypothesis. It is argued that the Canadian stroke study showed that aspirin protects men with transient ischemic attacks from coronary death as well as from stroke, that type II errors may have been made in some clinical trials, that aspirin protects women as well as men, that aspirin benefits patients who have had a heart attack, that the effect of aspirin in angina varies with the type of angina, that the dose of aspirin used may not be critical, that guidelines for use of dipyridamole and sulfinpyrazone are still inconclusive, and that exercise and fish oil supplements may be “antithrombotic.”

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