Aspirin Not So Safe
A recent study of the health benefits of daily intake of low dose aspirin yielded some surprising results. The study is called the Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly or ASPREE study. The study was double-blind, randomized, and placebo-controlled. The study found that healthy older people did not benefit by longer life or freedom from dementia or disability by taking low dose aspirin.
Taking aspirin regularly can raise the risk of significant bleeding in the stomach, intestines, and brain. This study supported this finding. Another surprising result in the preliminary findings of the study was that the group taking aspirin appeared to have increased risk of cancer.
The point of these preliminary results is that the seemingly harmless act of taking a little aspirin every day in not totally without risk. Almost all drugs have potentially harmful side-effects.
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