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Anti-inflammatory cuts risk of heart attack

Anne Li                                                                                     September 16th, 2017                            anne2001.li@gmail.com

 

A clinical trial of more than 10,000 heart attack patients reported today supports a novel way to protect them from a stroke or a second attack: with drugs that stop inflammation. The approach has been advanced by some scientists for years, but this is the first trial to conclusively show that it works. Cardiologists hailed it as vindication for the heart attack–inflammation link, which hadn’t been proved in people.
 
See original article at: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/anti-inflammatory-cuts-risk-heart-attack

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