A common myth is that taking aspirin everyday helps your health. Though now, that might not be the case. Aspirin isn’t helpful, or at least not as much as you think. A large scale clinical trial found the drug doesn’t help prevent heart attacks, strokes, dementia, or physical disability.
Aspirin Isn’t Helpful
In fact, those that took a low dose of aspirin everyday were more likely to suffer serious internal bleeding than when they took a placebo.
Researchers even noticed that there were more deaths with the people who were taking aspirin.
The Study
The study had 19,000 adults participate. Around half of them were assigned to take 100 milligrams of aspirin a day, the other half had a placebo, for 5 years.
The idea of seniors taking aspirin everyday is not based on facts according to the study’s authors.
Though a 2015 study showed that nearly half of 2,039 US adults between 45 to 75, who didn’t have a history of cardiovascular disease, were taking aspirin.
Does Aspirin Help with Heart Attacks?
It does, only if you already have had a heart attack or stroke. Studies have proved that a low dose of aspirin can significantly reduce following heart attacks and strokes.
The benefits outweigh the occurrences of internal bleeding.
Though overall official recommendations are mixed.
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