It’s Time to Start Rethinking Aspirin

 

New advice! When it comes to taking an aspirin a day. Harvard researchers revealed that unless you have already had a heart attack or stroke that taking an aspirin a day is actually more harmful than helpful. 29 million people were taking an aspirin a day despite no known heart conditions and 6.6 million doing so even though their doctor never recommended it.

 

The three new research studies, which were some of the largest and longest, showed almost no help with cardiovascular disease, but did cause significant GI bleeding along with other serious side effects. Therefore new recommendations are as follows: 

– Only certain 40- to 70-year-olds who don’t already have heart disease are at high enough risk to warrant 75 to 100 milligrams of aspirin daily, and that’s for a doctor to decide.

Be safe and tell somebody!

Some 29 million people 40 and older were taking an aspirin a day despite having no known heart disease in 2017.

Millions of people who take aspirin to prevent a heart attack may need to rethink the pill-popping, Harvard researchers reported Monday.

A daily low-dose aspirin is recommended for people who have already had a heart attack or stroke and for those diagnosed with heart disease.

But for the otherwise healthy, that advice has been overturned. Guidelines released this year ruled out routine aspirin use for many older adults who don’t already have heart disease — and said it’s only for certain younger people under doctor’s orders.

How many people need to get that message?

Some 29 million people 40 and older were taking an aspirin a day despite having no known heart disease in 2017, the latest data available, according to a new study from Harvard and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. About 6.6 million of them were doing so on their own — a doctor never recommended it.

Continue reading the full NBC News article, “Millions should stop taking aspirin for heart health, study says” by Associated Press.