Aspirin dose and six-month outcome after an acute coronary syndrome
Martin J. Quinn, MD, PhD*,
Herbert D. Aronow, MD, MPH ,
Robert M. Califf, MD, FACC ,
Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, FACC ,
Shelly Sapp, MS ,
Neal S. Kleiman, MD, FACC||,
Robert A. Harrington, MD, FACC ,
David F. Kong, MD, AM ,
David E. Kandzari, MD and
Eric J. Topol, MD, FACC ,*
* St. Vincents University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
The Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina, USA
|| Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

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Figure 1 Distribution of aspirin doses in the GUSTO IIb and PURSUIT trials.
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Figure 2 Multivariate adjusted hazard ratios for six-month death, non-fatal myocardial infarction (MI), and stroke. CI = confidence interval.
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Figure 3 Hazard ratios for six-month death, non-fatal myocardial infarction (MI), and stroke after matching on the basis of the propensity score. CI = confidence interval.
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