Posted on 07/22/2019 4:58:43 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Millions should stop taking aspirin for heart health. A new study says for healthy people, aspirin should not be taken to prevent heart attacks or strokes. For years, many have been told aspirin is heart healthy, but this research says it may be harmful for some people.
It’s now only recommended for certain patients and always only under the direction of a doctor.
Seventy-year-old Margaret Ragucci suffered a stroke a few weeks ago.
“I’m sitting there watching television, go to get up and my leg wouldn’t work,” she said. “I was in the three-hour window for somebody having a stroke. They were able to administer the medication and I walked out of there.”
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I thought Prilosec contributed to kidney damage?
I just take a swig of apple cider vinegar each night instead of acid inhibitors/neutralizers.
Oh, and aspirin at bedtime.
It's those scientists and clinicians who develop therapies based upon mechanistic biological medical science who drive medical innovation. Conversely, ‘outcomes’ statisticians take large databases (e.g. the Medicare database) and use them to ‘answer’ questions they ask about whether therapies are effective. For reasons that I'd be more than happy to enumerate and discuss, querying large databases such as the Medicare database is just as likely to yield to erroneous conclusions as it is to lead to meaningful clinically applicable conclusions.
In that context, aspirin is helpful to prevent strokes and myocardial infarctions (heart attacks) because it inhibits the action of platelets. Platelets circulate in the bloodstream, and participate in thrombosis/clot formation. The mechanism of most ‘heart attacks’ is the formation of a clot/thrombus in a coronary artery that already has an atherosclerotic ‘blockage’. The clot/thrombus leads to total occlusion (closure) of the artery - and death of the heart muscle that relies on that artery for delivery of oxygen and nutrients. Taking aspirin makes it less likely that your platelets will participate in forming this thrombus/clot. A similar principle explains why aspirin can help prevent strokes.
One big ‘downside’ of taking aspirin is that is can cause gastritis (erosion of the stomach lining) and predispose to ulcers and bleeding from the GI track. Most people do not have this side-effect, but some do - and this is one of the factors that has lead some outcomes analysts to recommend against taking daily aspirin.
Of course, if you are a thinking physician, you will prescribe daily aspirin to those who are most likely to benefit from it, and not to those who are low risk for thrombus/clot - based events.
The problem with a study like this, that provides no substantive new information, but is sensationalistic and highly visible, is that it can lead to the avoidance of aspirin therapy (or other effective therapies) in those who would benefit from them.
What Cab do you recommend? I believe that may be what’s keeping you going.
Actually, my doctors are in their late 30’s to mid 40’s.
We really don’t want new docs, who have not had at least 10 years of real practice not just school, internship, residency and more educational than real practice on a daily basis for a few years.
> they will have to get rid of the expensive elderly <
Sarah Palin was right. The Democrats want death panels. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel - an Obamacare advisor and Rahm’s brother - said that anyone over 75 should be denied medical care.
Funny how the MSM never made any fuss over that.”
Now that I am over 80 and my wife is pushing 80, we as conservatives are prime target for the liberals and their docs like Ezekiel Emanuel!
I think we’re entering a phase where there’s a crisis of trust in science precisely because of things like this: the science on something is ‘settled’ for 20 to 30 years, and then scientists do a U-turn and go “Nope, don’t do that. Yes, we told you to, but now we’re telling you NOT to. We’ve got it right this time. Trust us”.
Salt.
Bran muffins for cancer.
Cholesterol.
Do as I say, until I tell you not to do the thing I told you.
On the advice of a NIH doctor I began taking a large aspirin a day. Some 48 years later the carotids still hum a happy tune.
“What Cab do you recommend? I believe that may be what’s keeping you going.”
Any Sonoma, Mendocino, Napa, Solano, East Bay Cab with vines over 10 years of age.
They have had the same winemaker or his family making the wine for a decade or more.
Then, the most important two requirements:
1. You like the taste and don’t have to force yourself to drink it. You can enjoy it for years and still want it.
2. You can afford it without going into bankruptcy.
Wine tasting can help, just avoid tasting more than 2 wines in a day.
Some day.
Wine is good.
Cannoli defiintely bad!
Not sure about aspirin though. I am in my mid 50s and have so far avoided all prescription drugs and try to avoid anything over the counter as well. I have taken some cough medicine and Tylenol in my time for short duration.
I did chelation for about 15 years right up until I had quadruple bypass. Bypass was inevitable for me but I do believe chelation postponed the bypass for many years though.
Orange baby aspirin, oh the horrors!
I always wondered about the wisdom of that custom; one asprin each day, even when asymptomatic. I thought it would thin the blood too much.
..I take aspirin and will never take statin drugs...
How many of these studies ask about early cardiac events with your parents, grandparents and siblings
How much of our health, good or bad has been pre determined by our DNA?
Can drugs and/or healthy life styles alter our DNA or is everything predetermined?
Fish Oil supplements for a healthy heart and joint function may be yet another popular, though benign myth.
I stopped taking them until further notice.
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-beware-scientific-studiesmost-wrong.html
https://reason.com/2016/08/26/most-scientific-results-are-wrong-or-use/
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39054778
I sure agree.
In this case, you have a systematic review of the literature that proves just that!
This is old news. The recommendation to routinely take aspirin was dropped some time ago.
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