Aspirin for prevention of myocardial infarction. A double-edge sword

Annales de Medecine Interne

Volumn 148, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 430-433

  Bar Dayan, Yaron ^b   Levy, Yair ^b   Amital, Howard ^b   Shoenfeld, Yehuda ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

anemia; gastrointestinal bleeding; low dose aspirin; secondary prevention

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPNEA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SYNCOPE; THORAX PAIN; VOMITING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; ASPIRIN; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0030699472     PISSN: 0003410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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