Aspirin Therapy
Adding Nexium to a low-dose aspirin therapy "significantly" reduces the incidence of gastric and duodenal ulcers in at-risk patients, a new study has found. Patients in the study experienced a 70-percent reduction in the development of ulcers when they took Nexium compared with those who took placebo.
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Aspirin and diabetes and primary prevention
For many years, it's been a standard recommendation that PWD take aspirin to help protect against heart attacks and strokes, both if... Read more »
Should You Be Taking An Aspirin A Day?
Menopause brings on so many changes that it's hard to know what to do first. Address your hot flashes? Take care of your mood swings? What... Read more »
Aspirin Likely Still Benefits Heart Health Despite New Study
For years people with a high risk for heart disease have relied on aspirin as part of their health regimen. Lately, there have been... Read more »
Does Aspirin Prevent Breast Cancer Recurrence? Maybe.
An apple a day may keep the doctor away for most people, but for breast cancer survivors it may be a daily aspirin that does the trick.A... Read more »
RA: TNF-inhibitor-methotrexate Therapy is Associated with Reduction...
After writing the other week about the depressing research related to mortality rates of RA sufferers and the link to cardiovascular... Read more »
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Plavix plus aspirin lowers stroke risk
According to new research, combining the clot-preventing drug Plavix with aspirin is an effective substitute treatment for people at high risk of... Read more »
Aspirin effective for more men than once believed
Previously, only men with a risk of 10 percent or greater of developing heart disease within 10 years were thought to benefit from aspirin therapy. A... Read more »
Long-term aspirin use reduces risk of death
Women who take low-to-moderate doses of aspirin may not just be controlling pain--they may also be reducing their risk of death. A new study has... Read more »
Aspirin and Diabetic Cardio Risk
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Low-dose aspirin has been recommended as a primary prevention strategy for patients with an increased cardiovascular risk, but... Read more »
12 things to know about aspirin
Surveys suggest that about 60 percent of people over age 65 take aspirin every day for ailments ranging from arthritis to heart disease. And if... Read more »
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