Relationship between risk factor control and vascular events in the SAMMPRIS trial

A recent stroke prevention trial found that patients with elevated blood pressure and cholesterol, and those who didn’t exercise regularly, were more likely to have a recurrent vascular event, like a stroke: https://t.co/wfhh71QGVj

@BullehShah2 @ShadiYaghi2 @EricGoldsteinMD @ShuLiqi My thoughts as well. Have we put too much emphasis on DAPT since SAMMPRIS when perhaps the benefit really came from the regimented risk factor management? https://t.co/myb6bt5bBh

Encouraging physical activity is particularly important in this group! Analysis of SAMMPRIS suggested that physical activity was the strongest predictor of good outcome! https://t.co/sGT5VpvC2U

In the words of Homer Simpson: “D’Oh!”