Study Finds Aspirin Can Prevent First Heart Attack
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Now, a new analysis using data from the Physician's Health Study and four other large studies shows significant reduction in first heart attacks among aspirin users, according to a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
"Aspirin reduces the risk of a first attack in healthy people by 32 percent," says study co-author Dr. Patricia Hebert, a cardiologist at Yale University.
The study researchers also found aspirin reduced the risk of all major cardiac events by 15 percent.
Dr. Hebert and her team collected data from the five studies including 55,580 people, 11,466 of whom were women, "When you consider whether or not a patient should be receiving aspirin to prevent a heart attack, you really need to think about their risk of having a heart attack," Dr. Hebert says.
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