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Lower Mortality Rate in Elderly Patients With Community‐Onset Pneumonia on Treatment With Aspirin

BACKGROUND: Pneumonia is complicated by high rate of mortality and cardiovascular events (CVEs). The potential benefit of aspirin, which lowers platelet aggregation by inhibition of thromboxane A2 production, is still unclear. The aim of the study was to assess the impact of aspirin on mortality in...

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Autores principales: Falcone, Marco, Russo, Alessandro, Cangemi, Roberto, Farcomeni, Alessio, Calvieri, Camilla, Barillà, Francesco, Scarpellini, Maria Gabriella, Bertazzoni, Giuliano, Palange, Paolo, Taliani, Gloria, Venditti, Mario, Violi, Francesco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25564372
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.114.001595