It has long been known that platelet activation is involved in the genesis of several cardiovascular diseases, especially acute coronary syndromes and other atherosclerotic diseases. Studies carried out in the 1970s already showed that the endothelial lesion was capable of triggering a cascade of inflammatory events leading to platelet activation and consequent vascular thrombosis. Activated platelets have a larger size due to their increased enzymatic and metabolic activity. These observations led to a series of studies that evaluated the correlation […]