Sentences with phrase «patient with aspirin»

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An international study of 3,396 patients with venous thromboembolism in 31 countries shows that the blood thinner rivaroxaban is just as safe as aspirin and more effective at preventing blood clots.

The large international study of 3,396 patients with venous thromboembolism in 31 countries shows, however, that rivaroxaban is more effective than aspirin.

Although aspirin reduces the risk of major cardiovascular events by 19 per cent, a more effective antithrombotic strategy could have major benefits for the large population of patients with stable cardiovascular disease.

In the first study to report on the association of aspirin use with breast cancer outcomes in a large patient population, researchers examined the pattern of aspirin use, cancer pathology and overall survival in 1,000 patients treated at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania and diagnosed with breast cancers, including receptor positive, HER2 - positive and triple negative cancers.

Results of the second, larger study were nearly as impressive: 38 percent of patients who took baby aspirin developed new polyps, compared with 47 percent of patients taking the placebo.

After excluding patients with liver cancer before the follow ‐ up index dates, 1,553 patients who had continuously received daily aspirin for at least 90 days were randomly matched 1:4 with 6,212 patients who had never received anti platelet therapy by means of propensity scores consisting of baseline characteristics, the index date and nucleos (t) ide analogue (NA) use during follow ‐ up.

In one study, half of 635 patients with a history of colon or rectal cancer took one aspirin daily while the rest took a placebo.

Josep Rodes - Cabau, M.D., of Laval University, Quebec City, Canada, and colleagues randomly assigned 171 patients with an indication for atrial septal defect (ASD) closure and no history of migraine to receive dual antiplatelet therapy (aspirin + clopidogrel [the clopidogrel group], n = 84) or single antiplatelet therapy (aspirin + placebo [the placebo group], n = 87) for 3 months following transcatheter ASD closure.

Patients also taking aspirin had annual rates of any major bleeding of 3.07 percent and thromboembolism (blood clot) of 4.9 percent, and those with renal failure were at higher risk of intracranial bleeding.

The new study, a post-hoc analysis, follows the main WARCEF study published in 2012 in the New England Journal of Medicine, finding neither aspirin nor warfarin superior for preventing a combined risk of death, stroke, and cerebral hemorrhage in heart failure patients with normal heart rhythm.

A 1975 paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association, for instance, showed that people infected with a common cold virus called the rhinovirus shed more virus particles if they were treated with aspirin than untreated patients.

Many patients with cardiovascular disease are treated with aspirin because it is effective, low - cost and has few side effects.

More than 10 percent of patients treated with aspirin therapy for primary cardiovascular disease prevention were likely inappropriately prescribed medication, according to a new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology that examined practice variations in aspirin therapy.

«Take 2 aspirin and make sure you're not allergic: Cardiac patients are often misdiagnosed with aspirin allergy.»

By evaluating aspirin guidelines by the American Heart Association, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, and other organizations, researchers determined aspirin use to be inappropriate in patients with a 10 year cardiovascular disease risk of less than 6 percent.

For patients with sore throat, physicians should recommend analgesic therapy such as aspirin, acetaminophen, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and throat lozenges, which can help reduce pain.

The study further suggests that NSAIDs such as aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen have a particularly advantageous effect when taken after diagnosis by colorectal, or CRC, patients without tumor mutation in the KRAS gene (KRAS wild - type tumors): The study shows that NSAID use by this group is associated with a survival benefit of 40 percent.

«In addition, we found that patients with GI symptoms were mislabeled as having aspirin allergy, which likely deprived them of being treated with aspirin in the future.»

This raises questions as to the utility of aspirin in patients treated with drug - eluting stents.»

If we only treat high - risk individuals with aspirin, we are going to miss a substantial portion of patients who eventually suffer heart attacks.

Moreover, our previous study found that regular use of aspirin after diagnosis was associated with longer survival among the 15 % to 30 % of patients with colorectal cancer and with a mutation in phosphatidylinositol -4,5-bisphosphate 3 - kinase, catalytic subunit alpha (PIK3CA [NCBI Entrez Gene 5290]-RRB-, one of the PI3K family genes.30 Markedly improved survival associated with aspirin according to PIK3CA status was also found in an analysis within a separate clinical trial cohort.31 Further investigations for the joint effect of these genes would be helpful to better understand the underlying molecular mechanisms of aspirin, NSAIDs, and colorectal cancer.

«Aspirin lowers risk of early death for patients with diabetes, heart failure: Paradoxically, aspirin also associated with increased risk of nonfatal heart attack, stroke.Aspirin lowers risk of early death for patients with diabetes, heart failure: Paradoxically, aspirin also associated with increased risk of nonfatal heart attack, stroke.aspirin also associated with increased risk of nonfatal heart attack, stroke.»

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Further studies would help to confirm the findings, further elucidate the risks and benefits of aspirin use in this patient population, and potentially inform specific guidelines for treatment of patients with diabetes and heart failure.

Clinicians now have reassurance that aspirin is safe for heart failure patients with a normal heart rhythm, according to study co-author Douglas L. Mann, MD..

Patients receiving concomitant aspirin had annual rates of any major bleeding of 3.07 % (2.70 - 3.44) and thromboembolism of 4.90 % (4.43 - 5.37), and those with renal failure were at higher risk of intracranial bleeding (hazard ratio, 2.25; 95 % CI, 1.32 - 3.82).

A population - based, case - control study27 confirmed the high risk of upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding in patients receiving warfarin in combination with aspirin and / or clopidogrel bisulfate.

«Given that aspirin is a cheap, off - patent drug with relatively few side effects, this will have a great impact on health care systems as well as patients,» study lead author Dr. Martine Frouws, of Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, said in a news release from the European Cancer Congress (ECC).

The study showed that those patients with views of the trees had significantly shorter hospital stays, fewer post-surgical complaints, less need for potent analgesic medications (aspirin instead of narcotics), and a lower amount of negative comments placed in their charts by nurses.

• In this 2009 study, statin use was associated with a rise of fasting plasma glucose in patients with and without diabetes, independently of other factors such as age, and use of aspirin, β - blockers, or angiotensin - converting enzyme inhibitors.

This study reported that 125 patients who were experiencing back pain too 2400 mg omega - 3 capsules along with their normal amount of NSAIDs (ibuprofen, naproxen, aspirin, Celebrex, etc.) for two weeks.

However, I am allergic to salicylate and those foods among many others are the worst offenders, along with aspirin (also NSAID) which is offered to patients routinely..

The type of pain relief necessary varies from one patient to another, with some dogs doing well on pretty mild pain relievers, such as aspirin, and other dogs requiring other more potent pain relievers such as etodolac (Etogesic Rx), carprofen (Rimadyl Rx) or hydrocodone / codeine (Vicodin Rx, Tylenol 3 Rx).

Prior to the approval of carprofen (Rimadyl Rx) we used aspirin in conjuncion with hydrocodone with good success in several patients in which aspirin was not sufficient for relief of pain.

In such patients, low priced generic risk pills that combine aspirin with a statin drug in order to reduce cholesterol and lower blood pressure can bring down the chances of suffering another stroke or even dying by two - thirds.

Does adjuvant aspirin benefit patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders who are on antipsychotic therapy?