Daily Aspirin. A Good Idea?
Posted On December 9, 2010
Aspirin is actually an amazing thing. Okay, it increases your risk of stomach bleeding [nice!], but otherwise it is an amazing thing.
(please share this with someone who is concerned about preventing cancer)
Here’s what they did
In a study of eight different trials involving 25,570 patients, researchers found that cancer deaths among those who took aspirin in doses as low as 75 milligrams a day were 21 percent lower during the studies and 34 percent lower after five years.
Pretty impressive
However, you can get similar results with a glass of a cup of coffee in the morning (colon cancer prevention), a glass of wine at dinner (heart disease prevention), and eating real food [a la the Mediterranean diet] reduction of risk of ALL MORTALITY by 50%.
And if you try the above, it typically doesn’t induce internal bleeding. Just sayin’.
Back to the study
Peter Rothwell of Britain’s Oxford University said that healthy people could start taking a small 75 mg dose of aspirin every day from the age of about 40 or 45 and continue doing so until they reached around 70 to 75, when the risk of the aspirin causing stomach bleeding rises.
Aspirin, originally developed by Bayer, is a cheap over-the-counter drug used for pain and to reduce fever.
In Rothwell’s study, published in The Lancet, researchers found the 20-year risk of death was reduced by about 10 percent for prostate cancer, 30 percent for lung cancer, 40 percent for colorectal or bowel cancer and 60 percent for oesophageal cancer in those taking aspirin.
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