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.

For decades, taking low-dose aspirin ... especially for older people. The research showed that for people without a previous heart attack or stroke, aspirin had only a modest benefit.

"All the patients seemed to be on a low-dose aspirin," 63-year-old Rose says ... Your Choice on Aspirin Therapy So people at high risk should take an aspirin, and people at very low risk shouldn ...

Scientists say that, to reduce these risks, older people should also take stomach-protecting PPI pills. But they insist aspirin has important benefits - such as preventing heart attacks - that ...