Aspirin: Eats, Blogs

British scientists have found that with regular use of aspirin to prevent not only cardiovascular disease, some cancers and disease. However, it has and serious side effects such as internal hemorrhage.

Aspirin

As suggested by Professor University of London, Jack Cusick, perfectly healthy middle-aged people You should be regularly aspirin   - to a maximum of 75 mg per day. Scientists conducted a meta-analysis of a large the number of studies related to aspirin, showed that the drug can prevent the development of some common cancers the gastrointestinal system, as well as reducing mortality from them.

In people who have had cardiac disease, aspirin has become a mandatory first aid kit contents, as the lower dose of this medication reduces the likelihood of recurrence of the disease. AND Now, scientists have calculated that would have given reception Aspirin   in terms of prevention of cancer. If all the people in the UK aged 50 to 65 years of taking aspirin daily for 10 years, it is would save 6000 lives a year - 4000 men and 2000 women.

Within 20 years, can Britain would avoid 130,357 deaths from cancer, and 9473 have fatal heart attacks people who had never complained of heart. But there are aspirin significant side effects - medicine "thins" the blood that significantly increases the risk of internal bleeding and stroke. And for the same 20 years, with the widespread use of aspirin can expect 18,000 deaths from side effects of the medicine.

However, elementary arithmetic It shows that aspirin would save almost 10 times more lives than take. In every 1 000 people, taking aspirin for 10 years, accounting for 10 lives saved, and two died of side effects. (READ MORE)

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