A baby aspirin taken daily reduces the risk of recurring polyps in patients with advanced adenomas or colorectal cancer, researchers reported at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. Their study of 1,121 patients had an unexpected finding: the lower dose (80 mg) had a greater preventive effect, reducing the risk of [...]
Concerns about the safety of discharging patients with both aspirin and ibuprofen after a myocardial infarction (MI) might be unfounded, according to researchers from Yale University and Denver Health Medical Center. A retrospective study of 70,316 patients found that patients who took both drugs had a risk of death that was comparable to that of [...]
Even though aspirin has been shown to reduce mortality in patients who have had acute myocardial infarction (AMI), many patients who could safely be given aspirin are not receiving it, according to the Maximal Individual Therapy in Acute Myocardial Infarction (MITRA) study group in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Of 4,902 patients in the multicenter registry of AMI [...]
It appears that taking aspirin before coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) can lead to a shorter stay in the intensive-care unit (ICU) by helping to protect the lungs against complications, say researchers from Israel. They studied 32 patients, 14 of whom received aspirin until the day of the operation and 18 who stopped aspirin [...]
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are considered to be a group of pain relief medications involving traditional, non-selective drugs, such as aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen, and newer COX-2- selective agents. Actually non-selective NSAIDs enlarge the risk of gastric ulcers, especially in older patients who have a history of gastric ulcers or who take them regularly. According [...]
