For decades, taking low-dose aspirin (81 mg) every day was widely recommended as an easy way to prevent heart attacks and strokes. But that changed when growing evidence led the American Heart ...

We’re all used to prescriptions, right? Headache? Take a single 500 mg tablet of Paracetamol. Traveller’s diarrhoea? Knock it ...

Participants were randomized to receive cilostazol (100 mg twice daily) or aspirin (81 mg once daily) for 1 to 5 years. The primary endpoint was the first occurrence of any stroke. About three ...

Now we’re looking at aspirin as a tool in preventing some of ... probably best to just take a low dose – 75 mg. When should you start taking it? Probably around age 50, but again, that depends ...

ACC/AHA/ESC recommends aspirin 81-325 mg daily for patients less than 65 years ... hypertension, congestive heart failure, impaired left ventricular function, or diabetes. Aspirin or warfarin ...