The women were randomly assigned to receive either 100 mg of aspirin a day or no aspirin. Over five years of follow-up, aspirin use was found to lower heart attack risk by 47 percent, and mini-stroke (transient ischemic attack) risk by 43 percent. Aspirin did not reduce the risk of larger or persistent strokes from clots or brain bleeds.
Platelet ADP release (Table 3 Table 3 Platelet Size, Nucleotides and ADP Release. ). The patients' platelets released less ADP when incubated with kaolin or when stirred with connective tissue than normal platelets did.
Check your grammar now! : phospholipid that is produced especially by mast cells and basophils, causes the aggregation of blood platelets and the release of blood-platelet substances (as histamine or serotonin), and is a mediator of inflammation (as in asthma)âabbreviation PAF.