BACKGROUND: The potential benefit of dual antiplatelet therapy beyond 1 year after a myocardial infarction has not been established. We investigated the efficacy and safety of ticagrelor, a P2Y12 receptor antagonist with established efficacy after an acute coronary syndrome, in this context. METHODS: We randomly assigned, in a double-blind 1:1:1 fashion, 21,162 patients who had had a myocardial infarction 1 to 3 years earlier to ticagrelor at a dose of 90 mg twice daily, ticagrelor at a dose of 60 mg twice daily, or placebo. All the patients were to receive low-dose aspirin and were followed for a median of 33 months. The primary efficacy end point was the composite of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, or stroke. The primary safety end point was Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) major bleeding. RESULTS: The two ticagrelor doses each reduced, as compared with placebo, the rate of the primary efficacy end point, with Kaplan-Meier rates at 3 years of 7.85% in the group that received 90 mg of ticagrelor twice daily, 7.77% in the group that received 60 mg of ticagrelor twice daily, and 9.04% in the placebo group (hazard ratio for 90 mg of ticagrelor vs. placebo, 0.85; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.75 to 0.96; P=0.008; hazard ratio for 60 mg of ticagrelor vs. placebo, 0.84; 95% CI, 0.74 to 0.95; P=0.004). Rates of TIMI major bleeding were higher with ticagrelor (2.60% with 90 mg and 2.30% with 60 mg) than with placebo (1.06%) (P<0.001 for each dose vs. placebo); the rates of intracranial hemorrhage or fatal bleeding in the three groups were 0.63%, 0.71%, and 0.60%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: In patients with a myocardial infarction more than 1 year previously, treatment with ticagrelor significantly reduced the risk of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, or stroke and increased the risk of major bleeding. (Funded by AstraZeneca; PEGASUS-TIMI 54 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01225562.).

• MeSH
• adenosin aplikace a dávkování   škodlivé účinky   analogy a deriváty   MeSH
• Aspirin aplikace a dávkování   MeSH
• dvojitá slepá metoda MeSH
• infarkt myokardu farmakoterapie   MeSH
• inhibitory agregace trombocytů aplikace a dávkování   škodlivé účinky   MeSH
• intrakraniální krvácení chemicky indukované   MeSH
• Kaplanův-Meierův odhad MeSH
• kardiovaskulární nemoci mortalita   prevence a kontrola   MeSH
• kombinovaná farmakoterapie MeSH
• krvácení chemicky indukované   MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• purinergní receptory P2Y - antagonisté aplikace a dávkování   škodlivé účinky   MeSH
• riziko MeSH
• rozvrh dávkování léků MeSH
• sekundární prevence MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• ticagrelor MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mužské pohlaví MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• multicentrická studie MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• randomizované kontrolované studie MeSH
• Názvy látek
• adenosin MeSH
• Aspirin MeSH
• inhibitory agregace trombocytů MeSH
• purinergní receptory P2Y - antagonisté MeSH
• ticagrelor MeSH