For many years, it's been a standard recommendation that PWD take aspirin to help protect against heart attacks and strokes, both if they've already had such an event (in which case, it's called "secondary prevention"), or even if they have never had either a heart attack or stroke (which is called "primary prevention"). The recommendation for use of aspirin in primary prevention is now being questioned.
According to an article recently published in the British Medical Journal, researchers...
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