Healthy people who take aspirin to prevent a heart attack are doing themselves more harm than good, researchers have said.
Millions of people – including a substantial number of the “worried well” – take a daily dose of the drug in the belief it will keep them healthy.
But at a conference for leading doctors, British scientists said they have found that for healthy people taking aspirin does not significantly reduce the risk of a heart attack.
At the same time they found it almost doubles the risk of being admitted to hospital due to internal bleeding. Read the rest of this entry »
