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Clinical determinants of clopidogrel responsiveness in a heterogeneous cohort of Puerto Rican Hispanics
Author(s) -
Dagmar F. Hernández-Suárez,
Stuart A. Scott,
Matthew I. Tomey,
Kyle Melín,
Angel LópezCandales,
Charlotte E. Buckley,
Jorge Ducongé
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
therapeutic advances in cardiovascular disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.164
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1753-9455
pISSN - 1753-9447
DOI - 10.1177/1753944717718718
Subject(s) - medicine , clopidogrel , prasugrel , ticagrelor , odds ratio , coronary artery disease , p2y12 , cohort , cardiology , aspirin
Clopidogrel is by far the most prescribed platelet adenosine diphosphate (ADP) antagonist in Puerto Rico despite the advent of newer agents (prasugrel and ticagrelor). Given the paucity of data on clopidogrel responsiveness in Hispanics, we sought to determine the association between clinical characteristics and platelet reactivity in Puerto Rican patients on clopidogrel therapy.

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