Aspirin A Day for Health??
September 10, 2009
According to research just presented on August 30, 2009 at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Barcelona, “healthy people taking a daily dose of aspirin to prevent heart attacks may be doing themselves more harm than good.”
Researchers found that the risks of bleeding from taking aspirin were such that its routine use in healthy people “cannot be supported.”
Doing More Harm Than Good??
“The findings of this study agree with our current advice that people who do not have symptomatic or diagnosed artery or heart disease should not take aspirin, because the risks of bleeding may outweigh the benefits.”
Over the course of this 8 year long study, the conclusion reached by the researchers was simple and straight-forward: While there was no difference in the number of heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events suffered, major bleeding occurred almost twice as often in the aspirin taking group compared to the control group.
So, to be perfectly straightforward, it simply did not help prevent heart attacks or strokes but did cause abnormal bleeding.
Additionally, the risk of aspirin overdose and poisoning just by having it in the house were not correlated. Further, the greatest risk in our opinion, is that everyone assumes aspirin is benign and, if it is, why not take it?
We still do not know how aspirin works or what the long term effects of regular aspirin use may be. Why not prevent heart problems by working to improve heart function?
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