Rationale and design of a randomized, double-blind trial comparing the effects of a 3-month clopidogrel-aspirin regimen versus aspirin alone for the treatment of high-risk patients with acute nondisabling cerebrovascular event

American Heart Journal

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Yongjun ^a   Johnston, S Claiborne ^b,c  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; TICLOPIDINE;

ACUTE MINOR STROKE; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINESE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK REDUCTION; STROKE; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT DURATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG COMBINATION; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE;

ASPIRIN; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SELECTION; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; STROKE; TICLOPIDINE;

EID: 77956356269     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2010.05.017     Document Type: Article

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