Aspirin does more harm than good in healthy people

ASPIRIN FOR HEART ATTACK PREVENTION SAID TO DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD IN HEALTHY PEOPLE
30 August 2009

Aspirin does more harm than good in healthy people, British researchers
have said.

BY REBECCA SMITH
Medical Editor
The London Telegraph

Healthy people who take aspirin to prevent a heart attack are doing themselves more harm than good, researchers have said.

Millions of people - including a substantial number of the “worried well” - take a daily dose of the drug in the belief it will keep them healthy.

But at a conference for leading doctors, British scientists said they have found that for healthy people taking aspirin does not significantly reduce the risk of a heart attack.

At the same time they found it almost doubles the risk of being admitted to hospital due to internal bleeding.