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Aspirin for everything? (Health).(Brief Article)
The daily low-dose aspirin (81 milligrams) that doctors have long recommended for people at risk for a heart attack may also help prevent other devastating diseases.
In the past few months alone, researchers have reported that a daily low dose of aspirin can reduce by 19 percent the chance of developing a recurrent colorectal adenoma--a growth that can eventually turn into colon cancer. And not-yet-published findings from The Women's Health Initiative study of more than 80,000 postmenopausal women discovered that those who took two or more regular-strength aspirin tablets a week for five to nine years had a 21 percent lower incidence of breast cancer than women who didn't take them. Previous research has shown that aspirin may lower rates of Alzheimer's disease and cancers of the lung and esophagus,
WHO SHOULD TAKE THEM?
Should all adults start taking a daily aspirin once they hit middle age? The answer is complicated. In some people, aspirin can cause serious, even life-threatening bleeding in the stomach ...
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