Bleeding complications rise after heart attacks as major cardiovascular events decline

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People who have survived a heart attack have gained increasingly better protection against new serious cardiovascular events over the past two decades. At the same time, the risk of bleeding complications has increased. A new study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet shows that bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract is the most common type of serious bleeding after a heart attack.

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