Daily Aspirin Is Not for Everyone, Study Suggests
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Written by:
L. Lee Coyne
Monday, January 16, 2012 3:54 PM
Nearly a third of middle-aged Americans regularly take a baby aspirin in the hope of preventing a heart attack or a stroke or lowering their cancer risk. But new research shows that aspirin is not for everyone, and that in some patients this so-called wonder drug is doing more harm than good.
“I stop a lot more aspirin than I start,” said Dr. Alison Bailey, director of the cardiac rehabilitation program at the Gill Heart Institute at the University of Kentucky. “People don’t even consider aspirin a medicine, or consider that you can have side effects from it. That’s the most challenging part of aspirin therapy.”
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Re: Daily Aspirin Is Not for Everyone, Study Suggests
This is definitely something that I have been hearing more about in recently. People may be taking too much aspirin for a number of things, like heart attack or stroke. I've seen some commercials about this issue, and started doing some personal research on it. Apparently this has become a big enough issue that there are some clinical trials for daily aspirin use. These clinical studies are looking into possible side effects from prolonged aspirin use. I think I might just take Tylenol instead.
By Stephen T on
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 2:05 PM
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