Evidende building that everyone over 45 should take aspirin daily

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayarticleNew.asp?section=health&xfile=data/health/2010/November/health_November71.xml

(IANS)

24 November 2010

LONDON - People above 45 years of age should consider a daily dose of aspirin to protect themselves from heart disease and cancer, researchers say.

Evidence is building that the benefits for the healthy middle-aged and elderly “far outweigh” the side-effects, according to the academics.

In particular, individuals at a higher risk from these two major killers can take the painkiller as a preventive medicine, they added, reports the journal The Lancet.

The experts were addressing the Royal Society of Medicine a month after research from Oxford University showed that taking 75mg of aspirin daily for five years reduces the risk of getting bowel cancer by a quarter, and deaths from the disease by a third.

[patrice]

1. Just ask my sister who is currently battling an acutely inflamed GI, triggered by daily aspirin.

If you do this, make it baby-aspirin.

[lbrtbell]

2. Aspirin damaged my stomach for life

There are safer ways to thin the blood. :)

[IDFbunny]

8. i like the effects of aspirin

but it wrecks hell on my guts if i take it too long. I go 1 day on 2 days off.

[kestrel91316]

10. It's the anti-inflammatory effects they are going after here.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Yep--I recently went back to acetaminophen because ibuprofen and aspirin

were killing my stomach.

[Dorian Gray]

17. 75 mg

is less than the baby aspirin (which is 81 mg). That's what was suggested in the article. Too much aspirin is dangerous, and this article should make it clear that it's a baby aspirin that's recommended, not a full dose.

[billlll]

3. asthma? i read asprin can trigger fatal closure of airway

So get advice if u have had any asthma

[roamer65]

5. Aspirin and Ibuprofen can cause massive diverticular bleeds...

for those with diverticulosis. See your doctor before you start any aspirin regimen.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Have been doing this since the age of 46 nt

[littlewolf]

7. my doc recommended this at age 50 ...

he told me either baby aspirin or low dose ....

[Divernan]

9. Hi Don. Happy Thanksgiving!

The entire article is worth a read - Lancet is certainly at the top for peer-reviewing.

[NNN0LHI]

12. Hi Divernan. Happy Thanksgiving to you too!

I had never knew about the cancer preventive properties of aspirin before I read this article.

Don

[shockra]

11. I've read it was the buffered aspirin containing magnesium...

That was the only helpful kind. In other words, it was the magnesium that helped, not the aspirin.

http://healthwyze.org/index.php/component/content/article/386-the-lie-of-aspirin-preventing-heart-attacks.html

Frighteningly, constant use of NSAIDs dramatically increases risk of Alzheimer's in the elderly.

http://seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Alzheimers/2009/20090423-AdvilAleveAspirin.htm

[LeftishBrit]

13. It's a very interesting finding, but always consult your doctor first

I do take a daily aspirin but I know people who cannot do so, because aspirin gives them bad reactions.

[TBF]

14. I'm able to take Ibruprofen, but aspirin gives me hives.

So I'll stick with other things. But fine for those who can take it ...

[whistler162]

15. wait 5 years he study will be reversed!

[Donald Ian Rankin]

16. Never, ever trust non-specialist science reporting.

Go and read http://www.badscience.net/ instead - it's both more entertaining and more informative.

[Richard D]

18. Fish oil and Turmeric

Better and safer and no gastric bleeding.

[TalkingDog]

19. Not on my watch

Look up studies that show what happens to people who start an aspirin regimen, then stop.

Incidents of blood clots, strokes and heart attacks rise dramatically, even for people with no prior problems those areas.