Manckoundia P, et al. - An observational study is carried out to depict antiplatelet medication (AM) prescription through retrospective study in ambulatory elderly patients. In this investigation, focused in its size and the advanced age of the subjects, long-course AM was prescribed in 33% of ambulatory elderly patients. Coronary heart disease, severe hypertension and diabetes were more frequent in AM subjects. However, the low percentage of declared strokes was surprising. They give additional information to doctors following subjects with AM.