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Racial disparity with on-treatment platelet reactivity in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.
American heart journal - 1 Aug 2013
Pendyala Lakshmana K, Torguson Rebecca, Loh Joshua P, Devaney Joseph M, Chen Fang, Kitabata Hironori, Minha Sa'ar, Barbash Israel M, Suddath William O, Satler Lowell F, Pichard Augusto D, Waksman Ron
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: On-treatment platelet reactivity to clopidogrel is variable and in part genetic dependent. In African American (AA) patients, the relation between on-treatment platelet reactivity to clopidogrel and the factors that influence this interaction is unknown. The present study aims to evaluate on-treatment platelet reactivity to clopidogrel in AA patients and its interaction to race and CYP2C19*2 loss of...
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