Thursday, August 23, 2012

Trial Will Test Methotrexate for MI, Stroke Prevention

If you're interested you'll have to go to the link in the second paragraph.
 http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Prevention/34349
The possibility that the immunosuppressant drug methotrexate can prevent major cardiovascular events will be tested in a 7,000-patient randomized trial funded by the federal government.
Called the Cardiovascular Inflammation Reduction Trial (CIRT), the 4-year secondary prevention study is sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and will be led by Paul Ridker, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, as principal investigator.

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