August 23, 2012 — Decision Resources, a research and advisory firm for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the 12-month post-hospital acute coronary syndrome market will initially contract from just under $2 billion in 2011 to about $1.6 billion in 2013, mainly as a result of the U.S. genericization of clopidogrel (Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi’s Plavix) in 2012. Decision Resources forecasts that the post-hospital acute coronary syndrome antiplatelet/anticoagulant market will then expand to almost $2.7 billion in 2021, owing largely to uptake of oral agents with novel modes of action, such as AstraZeneca’s ticagrelor (Brilinta) and the CETP inhibitors, Merck’s anacetrapib and Eli Lilly’s evacetrapib.