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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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Procoagulant platelets: generation, function, and therapeutic targeting in thrombosis

TL;DR: This review of data from the last 4 decades that have described these platelets with a range of descriptive titles and attributes suggests that their commonality requires unification of their description, and proposes the term procoagulant platelet as the unifying terminology.
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Stroke prevention--medical and lifestyle measures.

TL;DR: Stroke risk can be substantially reduced using the medical measures that have been proven in many randomized trials, in combination with effective lifestyle modifications for optimal stroke prevention.
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Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: an Update.

TL;DR: The aim was to review the pathophysiology of CVD in diabetes, review related landmark trials, and discuss the cardiovascular benefit of glucose-lowering agents, and the role of controversial anti-platelet therapy.
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Increased risk of stroke after discontinuation of acetylsalicylic acid A UK primary care study

TL;DR: In patients prescribed low-dose ASA for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular or cerebrovascular events, discontinuation of low- dose ASA was associated with a 40% increase in the risk of IS/TIA compared with continuation of therapy.
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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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