Can PEGASUS-TIMI 54 eligible criteria discriminate the risk of long-term major cardiovascular adverse events in patients with prior myocardial infarction in the real-world practice?
Abstract:Background
In the PEGASUS-TIMI 54 trial, the long-term use of low-dose ticagrelor in addition to aspirin in patients with prior myocardial infarction (MI) more than 1 year could reduce the composite endpoints of major adverse cardiac events (MACE). However, it came with the expense of bleeding complication compared with the patients taking aspirin alone.
Purpose
We sought to describe the proportion of patients who would have … Show more
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