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lüll Aspirin: promise and resistance in the new millennium Patrono C; Rocca BArterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2008[Mar]; 28 (3): s25-32Although conceived at the end of the 19th century, aspirin remains the gold standard of antiplatelet therapy. Approximately 100 randomized clinical trials have established its efficacy and safety in the prevention of myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, and vascular death among high-risk patients treated for a few weeks, at one end of the spectrum, and in low-risk subjects treated up to 10 years at the other. Despite this wealth of data, several issues continue to be debated concerning the use of aspirin as an antiplatelet agent, and novel opportunities appear on the horizon for this 110-year-old drug. These issues include: (1) the optimal dose for cardiovascular prophylaxis; (2) the uncertain threshold of cardiovascular risk for its use in primary prevention; (3) the apparent gender-related difference in its cardioprotective effects; (4) the increasingly popular theme of aspirin "resistance"; (5) the opportunities of chemoprevention in colorectal cancer; and (6) the renewed interest in aspirin as an analgesic agent in osteoarthritic patients at high cardiovascular risk. The aim of this review is to address these issues by integrating our current understanding of the molecular mechanism of action of the drug with the results of clinical trials and epidemiological studies of aspirin as an antiplatelet drug.|Aspirin/adverse effects/*therapeutic use[MESH]|Cardiovascular Diseases/drug therapy/mortality/*prevention & control[MESH]|Dose-Response Relationship, Drug[MESH]|Drug Administration Schedule[MESH]|Drug Utilization/trends[MESH]|Education, Medical, Continuing[MESH]|Female[MESH]|Forecasting[MESH]|Humans[MESH]|Male[MESH]|Maximum Tolerated Dose[MESH]|Myocardial Infarction/prevention & control[MESH]|Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors/adverse effects/*therapeutic use[MESH]|Prognosis[MESH]|Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic[MESH]|Risk Assessment[MESH]|Stroke/prevention & control[MESH]|Survival Analysis[MESH] |