Collaborative meta-analysis of randomised trials of antiplatelet therapy for prevention of death, myocardial infarction, and stroke in high risk patients.

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OBJECTIVE: To determine the effects of antiplatelet therapy among patients at high risk of occlusive vascular events. DESIGN: Collaborative meta-analyses (systematic overviews). INCLUSION CRITERIA: Randomised trials of an antiplatelet regimen versus control or of one antiplatelet regimen versus another in high risk patients (with acute or previous vascular disease or some other predisposing condition) from which results were available before September 1997. Trials had to use a method of rando...

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Authors: Collaboration, A

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
• Volume: 324
• Issue: 7329
• Pages: 71-86
• Publication date: 2002-01-01
• DOI: 10.1136/bmj.324.7329.71
• EISSN: 1756-1833
• ISSN: 0959-8138
• Language: English
• Keywords: Aspirin; Stroke; Humans; Myocardial Infarction; Cardiovascular Diseases; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Drug Administration Schedule; Risk Assessment; Antithrombotic Trialists' Collaboration; Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors; Drug Therapy, Combination