Inflammation, Aspirin, and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Apparently Healthy Men
Open Access
- 3 April 1997
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 336 (14), 973-979
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199704033361401
Abstract
Inflammation may be important in the pathogenesis of atherothrombosis. We studied whether inflammation increases the risk of a first thrombotic event and whether treatment with aspirin decreases the risk.Keywords
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