Taking a daily aspirin to prevent heart attacks or stroke is ten times riskier for the elderly.
Baby aspirin dosage for elderly.
Warning use by over 75s is leading to 3 000 preventable deaths each year.
In healthy elderly people who never had a heart attack the widespread practice of taking a baby aspirin every day may do more harm than good according to a u s australian study of more than.
But for older healthy people the risks outweigh the benefits for taking low dose aspirin murray says.
Since the elderly are underrepresented in clinical trials the extent to which this risk influences the benefits of aspirin.
The primary risk is bleeding.
Low dose aspirin decreases the risk of heart attack and.
Ischemic stroke the kind caused by a clot or if you ve had a stent or bypass surgery taking low dose aspirin 81 mg daily tends to be a smart move says sharonne hayes m d a cardiologist and professor of medicine at the mayo clinic in.
Even low dose aspirin can increase the risk of bleeding in the gut.