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Low-dose aspirin for primary prevention of CV events may only be effective in smaller people

The ability of 75 to 100 mg of aspirin to reduce cardiovascular events decreased with increasing weight, while doses of 325 mg or more had the opposite interaction with body weight, reducing cardiovascular events only in people who weighed more.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2018/07/24/2.htm
24 Jul 2018

COVID-19 research looks at aspirin, disparities, long-term outcomes

Recent aspirin use may be associated with improved COVID-19 outcomes, and hospitals had widely differing mortality rates in April 2020. Half of discharged patients reported ongoing symptoms at four months, and most ICU patients showed evidence of impairments at one month, new studies found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/23/1.htm
23 Mar 2021

Calling attention to adult ADHD

Missing an adult diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) means patients also miss out on effective, often life-changing treatment.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2023/04/calling-attention-to-adult-adhd.htm
1 Apr 2023

Stopping preventive aspirin associated with 37% increased risk of cardiovascular events

Patients who continued aspirin had a 4.1% yearly incidence of cardiovascular events, compared to 5.4% among those who stopped taking the drug, while the risk of discontinuation corresponded to one additional cardiovascular event for every 74 patients who stopped taking aspirin in a year.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2017/10/03/4.htm
3 Oct 2017

Balancing benefits and harms of pain meds in older adults

Pain guidelines issued by medical societies call for nondrug therapies and exercise as primary recommendations for chronic pain.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2023/07/balancing-benefits-and-harms-of-pain-meds-in-older-adults.htm
1 Jul 2023

Aspirin does not appear to increase heart failure events in patients with reduced ejection fraction

No difference was seen between aspirin-treated and warfarin-treated patients for time to any first heart failure event or to first heart failure hospitalization.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2017/08/08/4.htm
8 Aug 2017

Readers respond on narrative medicine, low-dose aspirin

Readers offer feedback on narrative medicine, “low-dose” aspirin.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/05/readers-respond-on-narrative-medicine-low-dose-aspirin.htm
1 May 2019

Low-dose aspirin's effects on survival may come with caveats

A trial was stopped early after researchers determined that continued aspirin use appeared to yield no benefit.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2018/09/18/2.htm
18 Sep 2018

Three months after PCI, discontinuing aspirin associated with less bleeding than continued dual antiplatelet therapy

High-risk patients who were randomized to switch to ticagrelor plus placebo had similar rates of cardiovascular events as those who continued ticagrelor plus aspirin, an industry-funded trial found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/10/08/2.htm
8 Oct 2019

Aspirin may benefit some people without cardiovascular disease, new analysis finds

An editorial accompanying the study concluded that it is reasonable to recommend aspirin for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in select patients, including those who are at high risk for cardiovascular disease with low bleeding risk.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/09/17/4.htm
17 Sep 2019

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