24-10-2018 18:06 via montrealgazette.com

Opinion: Should you take a daily Aspirin? It depends …

A series of recent studies has made people ask whether acetylsalicylic acid, better known as Aspirin, really is beneficial for your heart. As most people know, Aspirin is fixture in the field of cardiology and is routinely prescribed to people with heart disease. However, it was a relatively late arrival to the field. The ISIS-2 study, which showed that giving patients Aspirin after a heart attack improved survival, was only published in 1988. Nevertheless, subsequent studies, and a large meta-a
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