Efficacy and safety of clopidogrel versus aspirin monotherapy for secondary prevention in patients with coronary artery disease: a meta-analysis

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Cardiovascular Medicine

Di Liu¹  Dao Qun Jin¹  Lin Zhao¹  Wei Pan Xu²  Hang Xu² 

[1] Department of Cardiology, Huangshi Central Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Hubei Polytechnic University, Huang Shi, China;Department of Cardiology, Huangshi Central Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Hubei Polytechnic University, Huang Shi, China;School of Medicine, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China;

关键词: coronary artery disease;    antiplatelet monotherapy;    aspirin;    clopidogrel;    efficacy;    safety;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fcvm.2023.1265983

 received in 2023-07-24, accepted in 2023-10-03,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe benefits and risks of aspirin verse clopidogrel monotherapy in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) remain controversial. This meta-analysis evaluated the efficacy and safety of aspirin verse clopidogrel monotherapy for long-term treatment in patients with CAD.MethodsLiterature was searched in the Pubmed, the Cochrane Library, and the Embase databases until March 2023. The Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool was used to assess the risk of bias in included studies. Data were extracted from the included studies, heterogeneity analysis, and pooled analysis conducted by RevMan 5.3 software.ResultsA total of five trials were included, involving 11, 766 patients with CAD. Compared with the aspirin group, the clopidogrel group was associated with reduced risk of major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) [risk ratio (RR) = 0.68, P = 0.0007], myocardial infarction (MI, RR = 0.66, P = 0.01), stroke (RR = 0.58, P = 0.003), and BARC major bleeding (RR = 0.63, P = 0.02). There were no significant differences in death from any cause (RR = 1.06, P = 0.59) and vascular death (RR = 0.92, P = 0.62) between the two groups.ConclusionsPatients with CAD use clopidogrel could further reduce the risk of MACCE, MI, stroke, and BARC major bleeding, compared with the use of aspirin. This finding supported the use of clopidogrel rather than aspirin in patients with CAD who required long-term antiplatelet monotherapy for preventing ischemic events.

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© 2023 Liu, Xu, Xu, Zhao and Jin.