Aspirin

Polypill with aspirin, atorvastatin and ramipril vs. usual care for secondary prevention in patients with MI.

Among patients with CAD, P2Y12 monotherapy was superior to aspirin monotherapy for prevention of CV death, MI and stroke, according to an individual patient data meta-analysis presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

In older adults, a polypill containing aspirin, an ACE inhibitor and a statin within 6 months after myocardial infarction lowered the risk for major adverse CV events compared with usual care, according to results of the SECURE trial.

More adults with type 2 diabetes achieved guideline-recommended strategies for stroke prevention in 2018 compared with 2001, but further improvements are needed, according to study findings published in Diabetes Care.

One of the top articles in hematology/oncology last week was a blog by an internal medicine physician about the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a New York law that restricted carrying handguns in public.

Women who take aspirin frequently may reduce their risk for ovarian cancer, according to results of a meta-analysis published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Compared with aspirin alone, aspirin plus ticagrelor was associated with reduced risk for vein graft failure and increased risk for clinically important bleeding in patients who underwent CABG, according to a meta-analysis.

The American Society for Preventive Cardiology Congress on CVD Prevention will be held Friday through Sunday and focus on the expansion of the ABCs of prevention and the future of preventive CV care.

Healio and Cardiology Today have compiled the most-read cardiology news of June 2022.

PHILADELPHIA — The question of who should take aspirin is a complicated one and public messaging on it is sometimes confusing, a speaker said at the Heart in Diabetes CME conference.