Heart Health
Were the old aspirin studies wrong?
Ask the doctor
For 25 years, my doctor has recommended low-dose aspirin to reduce my risk of a heart attack. Recently, he told me that new studies indicate that I can stop. What's changed?What's changed is that recent studies had different results from the studies in the 1970s and 1980s that led your doctor to recommend aspirin. To explain why the change, here's some history.
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