(HealthDay News) — Almost 15 percent of U.S. adults aged 50 to 80 years are taking aspirin for primary cardiovascular disease prevention, according to a brief report published in the July 1 issue of ...

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Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) is one of the most commonly used drugs world wide. This graphic summarises the main indications for aspirin and considerations for when prescribing it.

Up to 15% of older adults may be routinely taking aspirin for primary prevention, and most of them understand the excess ...

Key Takeaways 1 in 6 older adults take daily aspirin to prevent heart diseaseNearly a quarter haven’t discussed their daily ...

Around 1 in 6 older adults take aspirin as their primary method of preventing cardiovascular disease – despite stricter guidelines that no longer always call for it, a study finds. Almost one-quarter ...

Practical Prescribing is a series produced in conjunction with the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin to highlight important issues for prescribers to consider and prompts for shared decision making ...

Aspirin in Stroke Prevention in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation and Stable Vascular Disease An Era of New Anticoagulants Mohit K Turagam; Poonam Velagapudi; Miguel A Leal; Abraham G Kocheril ...

Aspirin represents the sine qua non for antiplatelet pharmacotherapy in patients with cardiovascular diseases because of its well-established role in secondary prevention and its widespread ...

Introduction Antiplatelet therapy is commonly used in primary or secondary prevention of atherosclerotic and thrombotic diseases, such as coronary artery disease, transient ischaemic attack or stroke.

Interestingly, when surgeons are not aware if aspirin was used or not, they often cannot distinguish, based on the type of bleeding, patients on aspirin from those who have discontinued. 40 The ...