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Article: Accumetrics' aspirin resistance test available in new version.
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- Medical Device Daily
- Article date:
- March 10, 2005
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Accumetrics aspirin resistance test available in new version
By KAREN YOUNG
Medical Device Daily Staff Writer
Accumetrics (San Diego) President and CEO Rob Hillman says there are about 25 million people on an aspirin regimen to prevent platelet aggregation in blood vessels as a way of preventing heart attack or stroke.
But that strategy does not always work, particularly in those patients who are aspirin-resistant, a condition that the company said previous studies have shown is associated with triple the risk of heart attack, stroke and death.
New studies reported at the annual scientific sessions of the American College of ...