Abstract

To the Editor: I read with interest the article by Mahoney et al1 suggesting the cost advantage of prasugrel over clopidogrel; however, I found 3 aspects of their article confusing. First, frequency of rehospitalizations (Table 1 in their article) does not include extra cancers observed in the prasugrel arm of the TRial to assess Improvement in Therapeutic Outcomes by optimizing platelet inhibitioN with prasugrel (TRITON) trial. Considering the 27% increase in new cancers ( P =0.031), the 36.8% …

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