Who paid for the study?
But now it’s good for cancer prevention.
Madness !
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“When Bayer wanted to change its labeling to include the prevention of heart attacks in people without a history of heart disease, the FDA said request denied. The FDA says there’s simply not enough data to support the claim for patients with no heart problems.”
As it should be.
The sponsor, Bayer in this case, is responsible for demonstrating it’s claims are true.
new study shows it is good at preventing pancreatic cancer, too. if you start out early enough...
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/06/27/low-dose-aspirin-may-reduce-pancreatic-cancer-risk/
The real confusion here is that there is not just one type of heart attack. Aspirin shows lots of signs for being good to prevent *or mitigate* some types of heart attack, but that does not mean it is a universal drug.
(N.B.: The advice may still hold that if you think you are having a heart attack, you should immediately chew and swallow four aspirin with water, to mitigate damage from the attack.)
Another note about aspirin is that it was just noted that taking a small daily dose of aspirin may substantially reduce the odds of getting deadly pancreatic cancer.
On a related note, Omega-3 fish oil was recently disputed because it is not a universal drug in preventing all types of heart attack. But it was never claimed to do that, just one type, the “dead before you hit the ground” heart attack.
The pharmacist asks him, "Do you mean aspirin?"
The man says, "Yes...I never can remember that name."