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Aspirin in the primary and secondary prevention of vascular disease: collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data from randomised trials.

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In primary prevention without previous disease, aspirin is of uncertain net value as the reduction in occlusive events needs to be weighed against any increase in major bleeds.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2009-05-30 and is currently open access. It has received 2954 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Stroke & Aspirin.

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Diabetes: Prevalence, prognosis and management of a potent cardiovascular risk factor.

TL;DR: This review highlights the increased risk of cardiovascular disease and the dismal prognosis after acute coronary events when diabetes is present and addresses hidden diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance in patients with acute and stable coronary artery disease.
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Drug Trials for Older People

TL;DR: Suggested solutions include the abolition of age limits in new randomized controlled trials, and the routine measurement of frailty, with a new generation of randomizedcontrolled trials to establish whether treatments remain effective and safe in old age and increasing frailty.
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Regional, age and sex differences in baseline characteristics of patients enrolled in the Trial Evaluating Cardiovascular Outcomes with Sitagliptin (TECOS)

TL;DR: The trial Evaluating Cardiovascular Outcomes with Sitagliptin (TECOS) as discussed by the authors was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial exploring whether add-on insulin therapy to usual type 2 diabetes care affects time to first event in the composite endpoint of CV death, nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI), non-fatal stroke or unstable angina hospitalization.
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Relationship between aspirin use after diagnosis of colorectal cancer and patient survival: a meta-analysis of observational studies.

TL;DR: Subgroup analysis showed that use of aspirin after diagnosis was associated with longer overall survival among patients with the variant PIK3CA gene but not for those with wild-type Pik3CA, and aspirin afterdiagnosis does reduce all-cause mortality for colorectal cancer patients.
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Efficacy and safety of cholesterol-lowering treatment: prospective meta-analysis of data from 90,056 participants in 14 randomised trials of statins.

TL;DR: Statin therapy can safely reduce the 5-year incidence of major coronary events, coronary revascularisation, and stroke by about one fifth per mmol/L reduction in LDL cholesterol, largely irrespective of the initial lipid profile or other presenting characteristics.
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Collaborative meta-analysis of randomised trials of antiplatelet therapy for prevention of death, myocardial infarction, and stroke in high risk patients

TL;DR: Aspirin (or another oral antiplatelet drug) is protective in most types of patient at increased risk of occlusive vascular events, including those with an acute myocardial infarction or ischaemic stroke, unstable or stable angina, previous myocardian infarctions, stroke or cerebral ischaemia, peripheral arterial disease, or atrial fibrillation.
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Body-mass index and cause-specific mortality in 900 000 adults: collaborative analyses of 57 prospective studies

TL;DR: Below the range 22.5-25 kg/m(2), BMI was associated inversely with overall mortality, mainly because of strong inverse associations with respiratory disease and lung cancer, despite cigarette consumption per smoker varying little with BMI.
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