(22-06-07) Another Reason Seniors Need to Avoid Aspirin

Seniors who regularly take regular aspirin to prevent strokes could instead actually be increasing their risk. In healthy older people, aspirin may very well be doing more harm than good.
Researchers looked at data on intracerebral hemorrhagic strokes that occurred between 1981 and 1985, and between 2002 and 2006.
The number of strokes caused by high blood pressure fell by 65 percent over this period. But in people over 75, so many more strokes occurred among patients taking blood-thinning drugs such as aspirin and warfarin, known as antithrombotics, that the overall rate of strokes remained the same.
Between the two periods studied, the proportion of stroke patients on antithrombotic drugs increased from 4 percent to 40 percent. The number of strokes associated with these drugs increased by a factor of seven.
The increasing use of these drugs means that they may soon overtake high blood pressure as the leading cause of intracerebral hemorrhagic stroke in those over 75.
Source: The Lancet Neurology
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