Aspirin: More risks than benefits
Reported March 03, 2010
CHICAGO - A daily dose of the "wonder drug" may be doing you more harm
than good.
The British Heart Foundation is urging people who don't have health problems not
to take Aspirin daily. Experts say the drug increases the chances of major
bleeding--in the brain, stomach and elsewhere in the body.
Asprin is taken by millions of people regularly as a way to prevent heart
attacks, but researchers from Scotland found that the drug taken by people who
have no outward symptoms of heart disease did not reduce the risk of a heart
attack, compared to those on a placebo.
The study found that those on Aspirin were almost at twice the risk of suffering
a bleed, but the overall risk was small.
Source : WGN-TV |