Around 1 in 6 older adults take aspirin as their primary method of preventing cardiovascular disease – despite stricter ...

Around 1 in 6 older adults take aspirin as their primary method of preventing cardiovascular disease—despite stricter ...

New guidelines recommend aspirin use in primary prevention for people ages 40 to 70 years old who are at higher risk of a first cardiovascular event, but not for those over 70. Yet, people over 70 ...

Recently published trials offer more evidence to aid in physician decision-making regarding use of aspirin for primary prevention, according to a paper published in Annals of Internal Medicine ...

Overall, the task force supported the use of aspirin for the primary prevention of coronary disease in patients whose five-year risk of disease was estimated to be 3 percent or higher, but it ...

"A review of the evidence for use of aspirin in primary prevention was last looked at 5 or 6 years ago but now we have additional data from three new trials published last year — ARRIVE in ...

Within the National Cardiovascular Disease Registry, the inappropriate aspirin use frequency rate for primary prevention of CVD was 11.6%. Using data from the National Cardiovascular Disease ...

Another primary-prevention subgroup that might benefit from aspirin includes patients with a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score > 100. Recently, Banach and colleagues drafted recommendations on the ...

To TCTMD, Meyer said there remains some uncertainty about aspirin in primary prevention given that the per-protocol analysis from the ARRIVE trial—a study which included patients whose 10-year risk of ...

For the primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), the decision to use aspirin should be highly individualized, weighing the benefit-to-risk ratio and patient ...

Aspirin has been used as a heart disease prevention tool in some cases because it interferes with the way blood forms clots. Blood clotting and building up in your veins can lead to a stroke ...

London, UK- A new meta-analysis said to provide "the largest evidence to date regarding the wider effects of aspirin treatment in primary prevention" has shown that cardiovascular benefits are ...