PLAVIX helps reduce the risk of a future heart attack or stroke

If you have had a recent heart attack, heart-related chest pain, or stroke, you are at higher risk of a future clot-related event. Doctors may refer to heart attack or heart-related chest pain as ACS (Acute Coronary Syndrome). If you have been diagnosed with Peripheral Artery Disease (P.A.D., known as poor circulation in the legs), you are also at higher risk of a heart attack or stroke.

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PLAVIX helps keep platelets in the blood from sticking together and forming clots—the direct cause of most heart attacks and strokes.

PLAVIX is one of the most researched prescription antiplatelet medicines.

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IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Certain genetic factors and some medicines such as Prilosec reduce the effect of PLAVIX leaving you at greater risk for heart attack and stroke. Your doctor may use genetic tests to determine treatment. Don't stop taking PLAVIX without talking to your doctor as your risk of heart attack or stroke may increase. People with stomach ulcers or conditions that cause bleeding should not use PLAVIX. Taking PLAVIX alone or with some other medicines, including aspirin, may increase bleeding risk which can potentially be life-threatening. So tell your doctor when planning surgery. Tell your doctor all medicines you take, including aspirin, especially if you’ve had a stroke. If fever, unexplained weakness or confusion develops, tell your doctor promptly. These may be signs of TTP, a rare but potentially life-threatening condition, reported sometimes less than 2 weeks after starting PLAVIX.

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Remember, your doctor is the single best source of information regarding your health. Please consult your doctor if you have any questions about your health or your medicine.

Learn how PLAVIX helps
Have you had a heart attack, or heart-related chest pain? Have you had a stroke? Have you been diagnosed with P.A.D.?

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The important questions you need to ask your doctor about PLAVIX.

115 million patients have been prescribed PLAVIX

PLAVIX is the #1 prescribed antiplatelet medicine.*

Learn more about the research behind PLAVIX

* IMS Health, NPA Plus, TRxs. February 2010.

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