{"id":8595,"date":"2014-06-02T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=8595"},"modified":"2014-06-01T22:04:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T03:04:08","slug":"american-heart-association-says-taking-prescribed-anti-clotting-drug-may-help-save-sstent-patients-lives-but-many-are-not-filling-prescription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2014\/06\/02\/american-heart-association-says-taking-prescribed-anti-clotting-drug-may-help-save-sstent-patients-lives-but-many-are-not-filling-prescription\/","title":{"rendered":"American Heart Association says taking prescribed Anti-Clotting Drug may help save Sstent Patients\u2019 Lives, but many are not filling Prescription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-56563 size-thumbnail\" title=\"American Heart Association\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/American-Heart-Association-new-logo-200x96.jpg\" alt=\"American Heart Association\" width=\"200\" height=\"96\" \/><strong>Dallas, TX<\/strong> &#8211; If you\u2019ve just received a coronary artery stent to prop open a blood vessel, your life may depend on filling your prescription and taking an anti-clotting drug within days of leaving the hospital, according to a large study in the <em>Journal of the American Heart Association.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The risk of heart attack and death is highest within the first 30 days for those who delay taking their medication than during long-term follow-up out to two years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_235741\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Prescription-Drug-Bottles-Closeup-on-Labels.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-235741\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-235741\" title=\"Thirty percent of patients who had just received a stent failed to fill their prescription for an anti-clotting drug within three days of hospital discharge. (American Heart Association)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Prescription-Drug-Bottles-Closeup-on-Labels-480x319.jpg\" alt=\"Thirty percent of patients who had just received a stent failed to fill their prescription for an anti-clotting drug within three days of hospital discharge. (American Heart Association)\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-235741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thirty percent of patients who had just received a stent failed to fill their prescription for an anti-clotting drug within three days of hospital discharge. (American Heart Association)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Taking the drug clopidogrel plus aspirin is advised for a month in people who have a bare metal stent implanted, and six to 12 months in patients who get a drug-eluting stent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very important that patients take clopidogrel after having a coronary stent implanted to prevent blood clots forming within the stent,\u201d said Nicholas Cruden, M.B.Ch.B., Ph.D., lead author and a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. \u201cIn a worst-case scenario, the stent can block, resulting in a heart attack or even death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new study is based on records for 15,629 people in British Columbia who received either type of stent in 2004-06. About 30 percent of the patients failed to fill a clopidogrel prescription within three days of leaving the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compared to patients who filled their prescriptions promptly, those who delayed were about:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>three times as likely to have a heart attack within a month;<\/li>\n<li>five times as likely to die of any cause within a month; and<\/li>\n<li>twice as likely to have a heart attack or to die of any cause within two years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThis study highlights the importance of ensuring patients have access to medications as soon as they leave the hospital,\u201d Cruden said. \u201cEven a delay of a day or two was associated with worse outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Discharging patients from the hospital with enough medicine for the highest-risk period \u2014 the first month or so \u2014 could help, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Co-authors are: Jehangir N. Din, M.B.Ch.B., M.D.; Christian Janssen, Ph.D.; Reginald Smith, Ph.D.; J. David Hilton, M.D.; W. Peter Klinke, M.D.; Ron G. Carere, M.D.; Simon D. Robinson, M.B.Ch.B., M.D.; and Anthony Della Siega, M.D. Author disclosures are on the manuscript.<\/p>\n<h3>Additional Resources:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.strokeassociation.org\/STROKEORG\/LifeAfterStroke\/HealthyLivingAfterStroke\/ManagingMedicines\/Anti-Clotting-Agents-Explained_UCM_310452_Article.jsp\" >Anti-Clotting Agents Explained<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/HEARTORG\/Conditions\/HeartAttack\/PreventionTreatmentofHeartAttack\/Cardiac-Procedures-and-Surgeries_UCM_303939_Article.jsp\" >Cardiac Procedures and Surgeries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas, TX &#8211; If you\u2019ve just received a coronary artery stent to prop open a blood vessel, your life may depend on filling your prescription and taking an anti-clotting drug within days of leaving the hospital, according to a large study in the Journal of the American Heart Association. 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