Stopping a daily aspirin routine increases heart attack risk
(Medical Xpress) -- A new study published in the British Medical Journal suggests that people who have been diagnosed with heart disease and placed on a daily aspirin dose are at an increased risk of a hear ...
Cardiology
Jul 21, 2011 |
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Aspirin not always best treatment for many individuals
(Medical Xpress)—An aspirin a day may not always keep heart disease away, say two University of Florida cardiologists. But a new algorithm they have developed outlines factors physicians should weigh as ...
Medications
May 16, 2013 |
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Study suggests link between regular aspirin use, increased risk of age-related macular degeneration
Regular aspirin use appears to be associated with an increased risk of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is a leading cause of blindness in older people, and it appears to be independent of a history ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 21, 2013 |
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Stopping aspirin therapy after GI bleed ups cardiovascular risk
(HealthDay)—Patients with cardiovascular disease who discontinue low-dose aspirin therapy after peptic ulcer bleeding have a seven-fold higher risk of death or acute cardiovascular event, according to research ...
Cardiology
Feb 04, 2013 |
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Low risk? Women and young men responsible for large portion of heart attacks
In a contemporary cohort of acute heart attack patients, 70 percent of the patients were unaware they had coronary heart disease (CHD) prior to the event and 60 percent of those patients were women or young men. However, ...
Cardiology
Nov 16, 2011 |
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Adding clopidogrel to aspirin therapy reduces risk of second stroke
Adding a second drug to aspirin therapy reduced the risk of a second stroke in the weeks after Chinese patients had a minor ischemic (due to a clot) stroke or a transient ischemic attack (TIA), according ...
Cardiology
Feb 11, 2013 |
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