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Daily Aspirin: To Take Or Not To Take?

Taking daily aspirin may not be as harmless as doctors once thought, according to new research.

FOX News Radio’s Bill Vitka reports:

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For years, the prescription for preventing heart disease has been: take an aspirin every day. Now there’s a warning.

New research in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that 300 milligrams or less of aspirin multiplies the risk of major stomach or brain bleeding by 55%.

For people with a history of heart attack or stroke, aspirin should remain in the in the medicine chest. Dealing with stomach bleeding may be better than a heart attack, but if you’re not at red flag for heart disease, the risk may outweigh the benefit.

And the best advice: talk to your doctor.

Bill Vitka, FOX News Radio.




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One Comment

  1. tito gobantes

    June 8, 2012 at 6:21 pm

    im taking once a day with a low dose of aspirin 81mg and at night I feel stomach pain I feel im hungry so I eat snacks like biscuits or anything to stop. im taking also metoprolol 50mg for my high blood . pls. advice me if im going to stop taking aspirin or not