Aspirin has potential benefits for primary prevention of cardiovascular outcomes in diabetes: Updated literature-based and individual participant data meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials

Cardiovascular Diabetology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Seidu, Samuel ^a,b   Kunutsor, Setor K ^c,d   Sesso, Howard D ^e   Gaziano, J M ^e   Buring, J E ^e   Roncaglioni, Maria Carla ^f   Khunti, Kamlesh ^a,b  

^a LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

Author keywords

All cause mortality; Aspirin; Cardiovascular disease; Diabetes; Meta analysis; Primary prevention

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; PLACEBO; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT;

ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ALLERGY; BLEEDING TENDENCY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG USE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; META ANALYSIS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING HABIT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLEEDING; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASPIRIN; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85066830516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12933-019-0875-4     Document Type: Review

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