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An Aspirin a day keeps cancer away?
A small daily dose of aspirin - 75mg - substantially reduces death rates from a range of common cancers, a study suggests.
Research at Oxford University and other centres found that it cut overall cancer deaths by at least a fifth.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11930988 |
They used to recommend aspirin for heart health, but not anymore.
For persons without cardiovascular problems, the benefits of aspirin are unclear. In the primary prevention trials aspirin decreased the overall incidence of heart attacks and ischaemic strokes by about a tenth. However, since these events were rare, the absolute reduction of their rate was low: from 0.57% to 0.51% per year. In addition, the risks of hemorrhagic strokes and gastrointestinal bleeding almost completely offset the benefits of aspirin. Thus, in the primary prevention trials aspirin did not change the overall mortality rate.[45] Further trials are in progress[update].[45]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin...ks_and_strokes