{"id":1347,"date":"2009-11-16T08:14:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T13:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/at-the-aha-platelet-function-tests-in-practice\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:45:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:45:07","slug":"at-the-aha-platelet-function-tests-in-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2009\/11\/16\/at-the-aha-platelet-function-tests-in-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"At the AHA: Platelet Function Tests in Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Sunday afternoon Late-Breaking Clinical Trial sessions, results from the POPULAR study were presented.\u00a0 Among 1,069 patients treated with aspirin and clopidogrel at the time of PCI with stent implantation, several platelet reactivity tests were assessed in their ability to predict ischemic and bleeding outcomes. \u00a0Only three of six tests (LTA, VerifyNow, and Plateletworks) were able to identify patients at higher risk for the death, MI, stent thrombosis, or stroke at 1 year.\u00a0 However, none of the tests were able to predict risk of bleeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Sunday afternoon Late-Breaking Clinical Trial sessions, results from the POPULAR study were presented.\u00a0 Among 1,069 patients treated with aspirin and clopidogrel at the time of PCI with stent implantation, several platelet reactivity tests were assessed in their ability to predict ischemic and bleeding outcomes. \u00a0Only three of six tests (LTA, VerifyNow, and Plateletworks) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}