About taking baby aspirin

[question everything]

Some years ago it was concluded that older people should not start with baby aspirin for heart health but nothing was mentioned about the ones who already take it, whether they should quit.

Any new reports about that?

[GP6971]

1. All I can say is after my heart surgery

the cardiologist put me a daily low dose aspirin regime. Hasn't changed in 7 years.

[New Haven]

2. never got that news --every day 2 80 mg

do you have a link for the "Some years ago it was concluded"
like WHO concluded I am part of Yale health care and they still prescribe this
but if you have a valid link I sure would like to see it---thank you for your post

[question everything]

5. Several

UCLA

https://www.uclahealth.org/news/daily-aspirin-no-longer-recommended-to-prevent-heart-disease#:~:text

Mayo Clinic

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-disease/in-depth/daily-aspirin-therapy/art-20046797

Cleveland Clinic

https://www.ccjm.org/content/88/11/632

[mahina]

6. Hi New Haven, maybe one of the links above will help.

Aloha.

[marble falls]

3. Even a half baby aspirin every other day still made nicks bleed like hell. Dr said, "give it up."...

... had my heart attack at 38. Very close to half a lifetime ago.

Had my blood pressure done on Tuesday. 98 over 65.

[mahina]

4. A University of Hawaii librarian taught me to insert the term PubMed in any medical search

If I want to read peer-reviewed journal articles that were credibly published, not wait for some guy’s opinion to show up in a 15 second news blip.

“baby aspirin heart health preventative pubmed”
got me these links below, for starters. Note the date and the number of citations to figure out if it’s important or if the medical community thinks it is. Hope this is helpful. Best luck to you.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18187072/#:~:text=Aspirin%20therapy%20was%20associated%20with,CI%2C%200.65%2D0.87)%2C
Low-dose aspirin in patients with stable cardiovascular disease: a meta-analysis

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35570250/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35471505/

[wackadoo wabbit]

8. Just go to PubMed itself and eliminate the middleman (middle-search engine?)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

I use PubMed so much that I've got it saved on my bookmark toolbar.

[mahina]

9. You have a point. Why give Google the info to monetize. I guess the librarian didn't think of that.

Thanks.

Glad to have another DUer on board the "use pubmed for medical research" team!

[wackadoo wabbit]

10. Yeah, it's great meeting you, too!

Who knows, there may even be tens of us here!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. I had a heart attack nearly three years ago.

I am currently taking the low dose aspirin. I get bruises as if I'm being beaten daily. It may well be better than not taking it -- I am not quite willing to not take it -- but I honestly wonder what that proof there is that I should be taking this medication. I will be seeing my cardiologist next month, and should ask him about this. The last time I saw him, over a year ago, I did ask him if I really needed to be taking all the prescription medications I was taking. He looked at the list, and decided to eliminate two. Hooray.

I am essentially the healthiest person i know. I've gotten the Covid Vaccine and will get the current booster soon. Personally, I may not get any more boosters.

I just don't get sick. I got sick a lot growing up, got all the childhood diseases of the 1950s, chicken pox, measles, mumps, rubella. This is obviously back before vaccines for these things. My immune system is strong.

Having been exposed to many diseases, and having gotten over them, is to me the essential thing.

[New Haven]

11. thank you all for your help I am trying to write a response