19: You Hit 40! Should You start Aspirin?
May 7, 2022 ·
11m 36s
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With all its health benefits, cheap, and with few side effects, Aspirin is in every house. Aspirin reduces mortality in acute myocardial infarction. It is intuitive to use it for...
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With all its health benefits, cheap, and with few side effects, Aspirin is in every house. Aspirin reduces mortality in acute myocardial infarction. It is intuitive to use it for prevention, not only for treatment. Some studies supported that practice.But in the 21st century, we realize that aspirin is a gastric irritant and can cause bleeding. We got better pain killers and more potent platelet inhibitors, and we started questioning aspirin's protective effect compared to other drugs. So what’s the truth about Aspirin? Should people above 40 with no heart or vascular disease take Aspirin to prevent heart attacks and strokes or not? LinkedIn articleYouTube VideoAspirin Use to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement.” JAMA 327, no. 16 (April 26, 2022): 1577–84. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2022.4983https://www.cvriskcalculator.comhttps://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation-topics
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