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Aspirin fails in women at risk of pre-eclampsia

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Results of a major trial have dashed hopes that low-dose aspirin has a role for all pregnant women at increased risk of pre-eclampsia or intrauterine growth retardation. The Collaborative Low-dose Aspirin Study in Pregnancy (CLASP) has refuted the results of smaller trials of low-dose aspirin and other antiplatelet therapies that suggested pre-eclampsia could be reduced by about 75% with these agents.

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  1. Robert Short
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Short, R. Aspirin fails in women at risk of pre-eclampsia. Inpharma Wkly. 929, 3 (1994). https://doi.org/10.2165/00128413-199409290-00002

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