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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The use of aspirin for the primary prevention of CVD continues to perplex the cardiology community, especially after the publication of three randomized controlled trials of aspirin in 2018 and a ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Secondary prevention refers to using aspirin to reduce the risk of a second or additional heart attack or stroke. It’s different from primary prevention — using aspirin to reduce the risk of a ...