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Vorapaxar is a protease-activated receptor 1 (PAR-1) antagonist that blocks thrombin-induced platelet activation and therefore inhibits platelets by a different mechanism to other available antiplatelet drugs. The TRA-2P study involved 26,449 patients with myocardial infarction (MI), ischaemic stroke, or peripheral vascular disease. Addition of vorapaxar to standard of care is reported to have significantly reduced the risk of cardiovascular death/MI/stroke/urgent coronary revascularisation (composite primary end point), but at the cost of increased bleeding. However, there was a lower risk of intracranial haemorrhage in patients without a hi