Charles Hennekens
Charles Hennekens
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Basic research has shown that in the arteries in the heart, that inflammatory processes that are reflected by higher levels of CRP may play a role in the development of hardening of the arteries or atherosclerosis,
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My colleagues and I were quite surprised that the FDA has taken such an extreme position,
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My overall reaction is that I'm pleased, because we need the data.
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But there's still almost 30 percent of patients in a recent survey that weren't getting aspirin during an acute heart attack.
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Lipids are strong predictors of heart disease; CRP is a strong predictor of heart disease, and these predictors are independent of one another,
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It's a little bit premature to be declaring victory until we've had a large enough number of clinical trials and enough people treated for long periods of time to understand the risk-to-benefit ratio better.
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Those having a heart attack will have a far lower risk of having a second heart attack, a stroke, or their death rate is lowered almost a quarter. Aspirin has the best benefit to risk ratio and benefit to cost ratio of any therapy of acute heart attacks.