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To the Editor: Schulman et al. (Feb. 21 issue)1 report the results of the RE-MEDY and RE-SONATE trials. In these trials, there was a significantly higher number of acute coronary events in patients who received dabigatran than in patients who received warfarin and the same number of acute coronary events in patients who received dabigatran and in those who received placebo. As the authors noted, the increased risk of acute coronary syndromes with dabigatran was previously observed in the landmark Randomized Evaluation of Long-Term Anticoagulation Therapy (RE-LY) trial,2 and it was subsequently reported in a meta-analysis of seven trials that . . .

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