New Study Examines Anti-Inflammatory Medicines And Heart Risks

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — For aches and pains, headache and fever, people will take anti-inflammatory drugs — for example Advil, Aleve, Motrin — all available over the counter.
But should they be prescription only?
A Danish study looked at 29,000 patients with cardiac arrest and whether they had taken this type of medicine.
The risk of a cardiac arrest was increased by 30 percent for those who took ibuprofen in the month before.
“Just because a medication’s over the count