Figure 1From: Is there an ideal way to initiate antiplatelet therapy with aspirin? A crossover study on healthy volunteers evaluating different dosing schemes with whole blood aggregometryComparing treatment options for initiating aspirin treatment. Mean time until the inhibitory antiplatelet effect of aspirin was evident following an aspirin dose of 500 mg intravenously (i.v.) (within 0.5 min), 500 mg aspirin tablets orally (74 ± 105 min) and when 200 mg aspirin was given on the first 2 days (662 minutes (11.2 hours) ± 1390 minutes).Back to article page