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FridayClopidogrel Cuts Deaths after Heart Attack: Scientific American.com:![]() MORE: "Taking a blood-thinning drug in addition to aspirin daily after a heart attack significantly reduced the risk of death, follow-up heart attacks and strokes, according to a six-year study of nearly 46,000 patients in China. Researchers found that the drug, clopidogrel, increased overall survival by 9 percent. 'If early clopidogrel therapy was given in hospital to just 1 million of the 10 million patients who have a heart attack every year then it would, on present evidence, prevent about 5,000 deaths and 5,000 nonfatal reinfarctions and strokes,'" |
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