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ORLANDO, FLA.--Long-term low-dose aspirin therapy is a risk factor for gastrointestinal bleeding, data from the Physicians' Health Study suggest.
The finding comes from a case-control study of 451 case patients and 1,804 control patients among the more than 22,000 physicians in the randomized, placebo-controlled Physicians' Health Study. Patients were divided into quartiles of total cumulative aspirin use based on the prescribed dose of one 325-mg tablet every other day: Quartile 1 patients took fewer than 125...
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