Aspirin for heart attack prevention
For years I’ve been hearing on television shows, and from my own doctors, that taking one low-dose aspirin a day helps to prevent heart attacks. For the most part I haven’t taken aspirin at all because it irritates my stomach. It irritates my stomach BIG TIME! And I know that the so-called “prevention” factor is that it acts as a blood thinner. Ibuprofen ALSO acts as a blood thinner, and relieves my headaches better than other pain killers. I tend to take a couple of ibuprofen almost every day, so I figure that the advice to take one aspirin a day really does not apply to me.
Today I was reading an article on the Time.com website that a study done in England has concluded that aspirin does not reduce the risk of heart attacks in people who are prone to be diabetic. Well, I think that news is going to shake up the medical community! I wonder what I’m going to be hearing on the television news (and from the doctors) NOW!