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Injured By Plavix?

A study to be published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that patients taking Plavix (Generic: Clopidogrel bisulfate), a popular and expensive antistroke drug, experience more than 12 times as many ulcers as patients who take aspirin plus a heartburn pill. Up to half of those now taking Plavix do so because their doctors assume that Plavix is safer on the stomach than aspirin, said Dr. Francis K. L. Chan, the study's lead author. The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association recommend that heart and stroke patients at risk of developing ulcers be given Plavix instead of aspirin.

The new study suggests that the guidelines should be changed, and that many of those who are taking Plavix should consider switching to aspirin plus a heartburn pill, Dr. Chan said. Dr. Chan found 320 patients whose ulcers had healed and gave half of them Plavix and half of them aspirin plus Nexium, a heartburn pill. Thirteen of the patients taking Plavix, or 8.6%, experienced renewed ulcer bleeding during the year while just one, or 0.7%, of those taking aspirin and Nexium had an ulcer bleed.

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Two Studies: Similar Results, No Benefits from Stroke Drugs

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Study Finds Heart Attack Survival Rate Increased when Plavix is added to Standard Medical Care and Aspirin

Nov 6, 2005 | www.Newsinferno.com
The most recent issue of  The Lancet contains the results of a large study in which the clot-preventing drug Plavix (clopidogrel) was added to the standard hospital care given to heart-attack patients. While aspirin is routinely used in the emergency treatment of heart attack, Plavix is not.The study was done in China and involved some 45,800 patients treated within 24 hours of the onset of a heart attack at 1,250 hospitals. Half of the subjects were given the standard treatment (including...

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