Topic summary
Coronary Heart Disease
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Coronary artery disease.
Secondary prevention
Early studies suggested that antibiotics might help patients with coronary disease reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes. However, a 2021 Cochrane meta-analysis found that antibiotics given for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease are harmful to people with increased mortality and occurrence of stroke. So, antibiotic use is not currently supported for preventing secondary coronary heart disease.