Hong Kong, China - In a surprise finding, researchers from Hong Kong have shown that clopidogrel (Plavix ®, Sanofi-Synthelabo) causes more upper gastrointestinal bleeding than low-dose aspirin ...

Current evidence seems to indicate that due to individual variability in response to clopidogrel, as many as 30% of patients on maintenance clopidogrel (75 mg/day) may show elevated platelet ...

25). After a median follow-up of over two years, patients taking clopidogrel were 29% less likely than those taking aspirin to experience the trial's primary composite endpoint of all-cause death ...

Clopidogrel is a commonly prescribed medication used to prevent further heart attacks after an initial event. It needs to be activated in the body to be effective. Studies of European populations ...