Daily aspirin hardly reduces risk of first time heart attack
Posted on 06. Aug, 2010 by admin in Health
All we have known about Aspirin is that it can prevent heart attack or stroke.
For years we thought that taking low-dose aspirin regularly would suppress the risk of heart attack. However, according to Canadian researchers daily low-dose aspirin reduces the risk of the first time stroke by less than a per cent.
Doctors Michael Bayliss Andrew Ignaszewski found that regular aspirin decreases the risk of first heart attack, or a stroke or death from vascular disease by 0.06% per year.
However, the researchers said that earlier studies reported a 20% reduction in the risk of next attack (in those people who have a history of attacks), and in women it decreases the risk of stroke.
Their study was published in British Columbia Medical Journal and it says that there isn’t evidence that aspirin reduces risk of heart attacks in women or in diabetics.
Although the authors do not know why aspirin affects men, they believe it could be due to its metabolism in the presence of hormones.
