Inhibition of thrombin generation by simvastatin and lack of additive effects of aspirin in patients with marked hypercholesterolemia
Andrzej Szczeklik, MD, PhDa,
Jacek Musia , MD, PhDa,
Anetta Undas, MDa,
Piotr Gajewski, MDa,
Pawe Góra, PhDa,
Jakub Swad ba, MDa and
Mi osz Jankowski, MDa
a Departments of Medicine and Physics, School of Medicine, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

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Figure 1 Thrombin generation as a function of time, c(t). co denotes the initial thrombin generation, determines the rate of increase of the curve and S denotes the total amount of thrombin generated in the first 180 s, reflected by the shaded area under the curve.
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Figure 2 Thrombin generation expressed as concentrations of prothrombin fragment 1+2 (F1+2) as a function of time, at baseline and after phase I, II and III.
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