Do Aspirin Risks Outweigh The Benefits

Do Aspirin Risks Outweigh The Benefits? According to a new research done in London, they found that in over nine randomized studies of aspirin use in the United States, Europe and Japan, they do not.

The study used over 100,000 participants; that the study subjects had never had a heart attack or stroke; all regularly took aspirin or a placebo to determine whether aspirin benefits people who have no established heart disease.

What they found was amazing. The aspirin risks outweighed the aspirin benefits.

Benefits Of Taking Aspirin

In the combined analysis of all of the tests, with all of the different races of people, the researchers found that regular aspirin users were 10 percent less likely than the others to have any type of heart event and 20 percent less likely to have a nonfatal heart attack.

Risks Of Taking Aspirin

The new research found that aspirin users were about 30 percent more likely to have a serious gastrointestinal bleeding event, which is the worst side effect of frequent aspirin use.

Plus, the total risk of dying during the study was the same among the aspirin users, as the non aspirin users.

Though some previous studies suggested that regular aspirin use could prevent cancer, the new London research analysis showed absolutley no benefit at all.

According to Dr. Alison Bailey, director of the cardiac rehabilitation program at the Gill Heart Institute at the University of Kentucky, “I stop a lot more aspirin than I start.”

Most people do not consider aspirin a medicine, since it is an over the counter drug, but it is and it can be harmful to those who do not need to be taking it. Plus it can interact with other medication that someone is already taking, so ask your physician or pharmacist, if you should be taking aspirin.

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