Aren’t blood pressure and cholesterol cardiovascular medications enough to protect
against heart attack or stroke?
Reducing high blood pressure and cholesterol is important, but you also need to
help protect against the formation of clots in the blood. When platelets in the
blood stick together, they can form artery-clogging clots, which are the direct
cause of most heart attacks and strokes. Although blood pressure and cholesterol
cardiovascular medications reduce your overall cardiovascular risk, they do not
directly reduce clot formation. Prescription PLAVIX does. See how different cardiovascular medications work in your body by using our Interactive
Medications Chart.
Your doctor may prescribe daily PLAVIX and aspirin if you have been hospitalized
with heart-related chest pain (unstable angina) or had a heart attack. Always talk
to your doctor before taking aspirin or other cardiovascular medications with PLAVIX,
especially if you’ve had a stroke. Review any medicines you are taking with your
doctor, and always check with your doctor before stopping or starting any prescription
or over-the-counter medicine, or any herbal or dietary supplements.
For more than 11 years, doctors have written PLAVIX prescriptions to over 100 million people.
PLAVIX is the #1 prescription antiplatelet medicine.* The effectiveness of PLAVIX has been proven and the safety profile supported by 3 large clinical studies involving 77,000 patients who have had a heart attack or been hospitalized with heart-related chest
pain.
*IMS Health, NPA Plus™, TRxs. February 2010.
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safety and side effects of PLAVIX