Age-Dependent Effect of Ticagrelor Monotherapy Versus Ticagrelor With Aspirin on Major Bleeding and Cardiovascular Events: A Post Hoc Analysis of the TICO Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT: Background We aimed to evaluate the age-dependent effect of ticagrelor monotherapy after 3-month dual-antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) versus ticagrelor-based 12-month DAPT on major bleeding and cardiovascular events in patients with acute coronary syndrome. Methods and Results From the TICO trial (Ticagrelor Monotherapy After 3 Months in the Patients Treated With New Generation Sirolimus-eluting Stent for Acute Coronary Syndrome), which randomized 3056 patients (median age, 61 years) to the ticagrelor monotherapy after 3-month DAPT group or ticagrelor-based 12-month DAPT group, this post hoc analysis evaluated the age-dependent effect of the treatment strategies on the primary end point (a composite of major bleeding, death, myocardial infarction, stent thrombosis, stroke, or target-vessel rev

SUBMITTER: Kim BG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9075234 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature