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 ...

Aspirin in the primary and secondary prevention of vascular disease: collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data from randomised trials. Lancet 2009;373:1849-1860. Crossref ...

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 ...

While aspirin is beneficial for secondary prevention in patients with a history of heart attacks or strokes, it may not be ...

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 ...

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 ...