Aspirin May Harm the Healthy, Study Says
People who take a daily dose of aspirin might actually be harming their health. At a conference for doctors this past weekend, British scientists said healthy people who take aspirin regularly double their risk of being admitted to the hospital for internal bleeding, the Telegraph reported Sunday.
The findings also show that aspirin doesn’t reduce their risk of a heart attack, as previously thought. However, doctors said people who have already had a heart attack should still take the medicine.
“A lot of ‘the worried well’ buy a small dose of aspirin over the counter not understanding that they are increasing their risk substantially of a major bleed,” a researcher said.
Nick Henderson, executive director of the Aspirin Foundation, told the Telegraph: “Aspirin use to prevent primary cardiovascular events is only appropriate where individual patients are considered by their doctor to be at special risk from particular factors such as obesity, lifestyle, stress and a familial history.”
(AOL)
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