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A review of picotamide in the reduction of cardiovascular events in diabetic patients

Picotamide is an antiplatelet drug with a dual inhibitory action. Thus, picotamide inhibits both thromboxane A2 (TxA2) receptors and TxA2 synthase and, at variance with aspirin, does not interfere with endothelial prostacyclin (PGI2) production. Two large randomized trials have been performed to ass...

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Autores principales: Celestini, Andrea, Violi, Francesco
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1994050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17583179