Medical guidelines on daily aspirin changed this year: the blood-thinning effect could cause a major bleeding event, so for many healthy patients, it's not worth the risk. But in a new study, researchers came to a different conclusion.
For decades, healthy patients were told to take a low-dose aspirin as a precaution to help prevent heart problems, but the guidelines changed this year. For patients who have had a heart attack, stroke or open heart surgery, a daily aspirin is still recommended and can be a lifesaver. But the blood-thinning effect from aspirin could cause a major bleeding event, so for many healthy patients, the daily aspirin habit was not worth the risk.
Millions still take aspirin for their heart without a doctor's recommendation, research suggestsA new study published in the medical journal Annals of Internal Medicine on Monday came to a different conclusion.The study found that aspirin reduces the risk of heart problems for at-risk patients and for some patients without a known risk of cardiovascular disease.
"It used to be when patients were considering using daily aspirin we would say generally yes, occasionally no. Now when people ask, it is a generally no, you shouldn't take it, and occasionally it's a yes. It's a much more fine balance now," Khera said."It can help people who have had heart attacks and strokes, but generally healthy people, for most people, it does not do them any favor, taking aspirin.
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