Despite guideline recommendation changes, some patients are still taking a daily dose of aspirin for prevention of heart attack or stroke, according to a Jan. 13 The Washington Post report.

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with any advertisers on this site. For decades, taking low-dose aspirin (81 mg) every day was widely recommended as an easy way to prevent heart ...

In addition to its role as an analgesic, aspirin is being increasingly used in the prophylaxis of ischemic heart disease and strokes. The prevalence of aspirin intolerance is around 5 to 6%.

statins and clopidogrel - an anti-clotting drug. He concluded that the most cost-effective treatments to prevent heart disease were aspirin and the blood pressure lowering drugs. The statin ...

The rationale for prescribing aspirin to patients with or at risk of vascular disease is to try to reduce ... medical problems only when the effective dose and duration of therapy is known ...

Safe aspirin elimination in patients with HeartMate 3 LVAD reduces bleeding risk, offering key clinical practice insights.

For decades, aspirin has been the standard preventive treatment for patients with blood vessel disease. After an acute ...

The ARIES-HM3 substudy may help persuade implanters who are less well-versed in the circulatory changes an LVAD affords.

For decades, taking low-dose aspirin every day was widely recommended as an easy way to prevent heart attacks and strokes. But that advice has changed.