On Saturday 18 December 2004 16:25, Lesley Kay wrote:
> the real problem is that there has been no sufficiently large trial with
> conventional NSAIDs to show that they don't do it too...or aspirin for that
> matter - how many cardiology trials have been longer than 18 months?
> Lesley
I thought it had been commonly accepted for some time that Ibuprofen etc
reduced the effectiveness of Aspirin at stopping MIs, while having some
activity in stopping MIs themselves.
To find that a COX2 has no activity at stopping MIs is unsurprising,
to find a COX2 doesn't stop MIs, while still antagonising the Aspirin effect,
is interesting, but not surprising.
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