Appropriate use of antiplatelets: is prescription in daily practice influenced by the global cardiovascular risk?
Prescription of antiplatelets still seems to be far from what is recommended in virtually all patients with a history of CVD. In subjects with cardiovascular risk factors but without CVD antiplatelet prescription increases in relation to global cardiovascular risk but is still low in patients at high or very high risk of cardiovascular events.
Rapid increases in plasma nitrite following exposure to ambient air pollutants support the hypothesis that ambient air pollution is associated with inducible nitric oxide synthase-mediated systemic inflammation in humans.