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PLAVIX works to help stop clots

Blood pressure and cholesterol medications do not directly address the formation of clots, which are the cause of most heart attacks and strokes. Find out how PLAVIX is different

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Clot formation is a natural defense and healing mechanism in the body. But, sometimes clots can put you at risk for a heart attack or stroke.

Help Protect With PLAVIX

 

You may be at greater risk—but there is something you can do about it

High cholesterol and high blood pressure are risk factors that need to be managed. But they’re not the direct cause of most heart attacks. The direct cause is blood platelets sticking together and forming clots.

PLAVIX taken with aspirin can help

If you've been hospitalized with heart-related chest pain or a heart attack, talk to your doctor about PLAVIX with aspirin. PLAVIX, taken with aspirin, plays its own role in helping to keep platelets from sticking together. PLAVIX, taken with aspirin, allows blood to flow more easily and provides more protection against a future heart attack or stroke than aspirin alone.

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See how PLAVIX, taken with aspirin, helps keep platelets from sticking together.

The effectiveness of PLAVIX has been proven and the safety profile supported by 2 large clinical studies involving 58,000 patients who had a heart attack or had been hospitalized with heart-related chest pain. Two studies involved over 48,000 patients who had a suspected heart attack caused by a completely blocked artery. These studies determined that PLAVIX taken with aspirin goes beyond what other heart medicines do alone to provide greater protection against a heart attack, stroke, and even death. PLAVIX helps save lives in patients who survive a heart attack due to a completely blocked artery.

For more than 11 years, doctors have written PLAVIX prescriptions to over 100 million people. PLAVIX is the #1 prescription antiplatelet medicine.* Talk to your doctor about PLAVIX and continue to take all your medicines as prescribed.

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

Stent* or no stent, PLAVIX may be right for you

Some patients who have had heart-related chest pain (unstable angina) or a certain type of heart attack in which their artery was partially blocked (non-ST-elevation heart attack) have medical procedures to insert a stent into an artery that is narrowed due to plaque buildup. Others are managed with medical treatment, or with cardiac surgery. In each of these cases, it’s still important to talk to your doctor about PLAVIX.

*Bare metal stents. If you have any other type of stent, please talk to your doctor.

 

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PLAVIX is a prescription medicine recommended for people who have suffered from a recent heart attack or recent stroke or have been diagnosed with Peripheral Artery Disease, or P.A.D. (also known as poor circulation in the legs).

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PLAVIX helps reduce the formation of blood clots that cause over 90% of all heart attacks and 87% of strokes.

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, 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. Other rare but serious side effects may occur.

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