{"id":2872,"date":"2010-08-30T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:52","slug":"4-year-findings-from-the-reach-registry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/08\/30\/4-year-findings-from-the-reach-registry\/","title":{"rendered":"4-Year Findings from the REACH Registry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Not all atherothrombosis is equal.&#8221; That&#8217;s the message from the latest findings of the international REACH (Reduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health) registry of more than 45,000 patients with &#8220;various manifestations&#8221; of atherothrombosis. According to the REACH investigators, &#8220;easily demarcated subgroups of atherothrombotic patients had widely varying risks [for future ischemic events], ranging from 7% in nondiabetic patients with other risk factors for atherothrombosis to 25% in patients with polyvascular disease and prior ischemic events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The findings were presented by Deepak Bhatt at the ESC in Stockholm and <a href=\"http:\/\/jama.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/jama.2010.1322\">published simultaneously in <em>JAMA<\/em><\/a>. Other key findings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People with prior ischemic events were at higher risk than people with stable CAD but no history of ischemia, while people with risk factors alone had the lowest risk.<\/li>\n<li>An ischemic event within the past year raised risk more than a remote event did.<\/li>\n<li>Diabetes substantially increased risk across all categories of patients.<\/li>\n<li>Polyvascular disease was even stronger than diabetes in predicting risk in people with established atherothrombosis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Not all atherothrombosis is equal.&#8221; That&#8217;s the message from the latest findings of the international REACH (Reduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health) registry of more than 45,000 patients with &#8220;various manifestations&#8221; of atherothrombosis. According to the REACH investigators, &#8220;easily demarcated subgroups of atherothrombotic patients had widely varying risks [for future ischemic events], ranging from 7% [&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":[346,345,215],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-atherothrombosis","tag-reach-registry","tag-risk-assessment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","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=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}