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Prasugrel 5 mg in acute coronary syndromes: indications and clinical outcomes
Medicine
Abstract
Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) represent a major public health problem in the Western world. Recent North American statistics have clearly demonstrated their relevance: a myocardial infarction (MI) occurs every 40 s, totaling more than one million events per year, a third of which are recurrent. About a third of deaths worldwide are of cardiac origin