Dr. Harriott's Commentary:
I hear this all the time, "I take aspirin every day, just in case." It has very real adverse effects on the digestive tract, it has questionable cardiovascular benefits. Dietary changes incorporating reduced sugars, empty carbs, and saturated animal fats with increased vegetables, omega-3 fats and other anti-imflammatory lifestyle changes including regular exercise, of course) are what created SIGNIFICANT improvements in cardiovascular health.
There is no pill that delivers health. THERE IS NO SUCH PILL!!!
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Use of Low-Dose Aspirin in Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events Not Recommended
August 30, 2009 (Barcelona, Spain) — The use of low-dose aspirin in the primary prevention of cardiovascular events in healthy individuals with asymptomatic atherosclerosis is currently not warranted, according to the lead researcher of a large "real-world" study presented today at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2009 Congress.
In the randomized trial of 3350 subjects deemed at high risk for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events because of a low ankle-brachial index (ABI) (<0.95), aspirin had absolutely no effect on reducing events compared with placebo, Dr Gerry Fowkes (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) reported on behalf of the Aspirin for Asymptomatic Atherosclerosis (AAA) trialists.
full story: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/708139?sssdmh=dm1.522428&src=nldne
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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