Taking a daily aspirin to prevent heart attacks or stroke is ten times riskier for the elderly.
Baby aspirin dosage for elderly.
But for older healthy people the risks outweigh the benefits for taking low dose aspirin murray says.
Low dose aspirin decreases the risk of heart attack and.
The primary risk is bleeding.
Since the elderly are underrepresented in clinical trials the extent to which this risk influences the benefits of aspirin.
Even low dose aspirin can increase the risk of bleeding in the gut.
Baby aspirin can help some but not all older adults lower the risk for heart attack and.
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.
Warning use by over 75s is leading to 3 000 preventable deaths each year.