Re: Problems with Aspirin in Older People?

[Guest guest]

This sounds like common sense. I thought low dose aspirin was " only " advocated

for people with previous heart attacks or known problems.

If we eat less and live right.... foods, drugs, supplements, etc that prove

helpful to

sedentary, overweight, and malnutrite, may be either useless or perhaps

dangerous to

us.

The vast majority of popular research may not be very applicable to our

lifestyles.

This one sounds an IMO useful warning. I suggest recent questions about statins

etc, may

fall into the same category.

Be well,

JR

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Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 8:17 AM

Subject: [ ] Problems with Aspirin in Older People?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4561573.stm

Rodney.

[Guest guest]

Two people I know had nasty side effects from aspirin. My mother suffered

internal bleeding (she took it for arthritis) and a colleague of my

husband's suffered a brain hemorrhage.

on 5/20/2005 9:17 AM, Rodney at perspect1111@... wrote:

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4561573.stm

>

> Rodney.

>

[Guest guest]

Hi JR:

Yes. In principle I agree with you. Avoid (almost) all medications

unless ABSOLUTELY necessary. However I have made an exception in the

case of aspirin because of its multiple, apparent, benefits, many of

which have been attributed to its anti-inflammatory characteristics.

And of course we know that more and more problems are now being

traced to inflammation.

These benefits include a significant reduction in colon cancer risk

and a smaller reduction in prostate cancer risk.

(Does aspirin qualify as an NSAID? If so, one study attributed a 66%

reduction in prostate cancer incidence to taking NSAIDs.)

So even if we do not need to be concerned with CVD, there may be good

reason to take aspirin for other benefits.

OTOH since aspirin may contribute to hemorrhagic strokes - the type

CR people are more likely to get, that may be a special risk we need

to be cautious about.

Rodney.

--- In , " " <crjohnr@b...>

wrote:

> This sounds like common sense. I thought low dose aspirin

was " only " advocated

> for people with previous heart attacks or known problems.

>

> If we eat less and live right.... foods, drugs, supplements, etc

that prove helpful to

> sedentary, overweight, and malnutrite, may be either useless or

perhaps dangerous to

> us.

>

> The vast majority of popular research may not be very applicable to

our lifestyles.

> This one sounds an IMO useful warning. I suggest recent questions

about statins etc, may

> fall into the same category.

>

> Be well,

>

> JR

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From:

> [mailto: ]On Behalf Of Rodney

> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 8:17 AM

>

> Subject: [ ] Problems with Aspirin in Older People?

>

>

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4561573.stm

>

> Rodney.

[Guest guest]

Well my cardio rec'd aspirin or plavix, both bad for me I think (bruising), and I've had no heart attack.

But the article is for >70yo.

"People aged 70 and over should not take low dose aspirin to avoid heart disease because they are at increased risk of nasty side effects, say researchers. "

Think about it, how many over 70yo, DON'T have heart disease? It's a select group - how did they determine who has no heart disease? I doubt they did angiograms on all the >70yo's. It's based on a model.

Fish oil is bad for me also. So no aspirin (daily), no plavix, no fish oil is where I migrated.

"The British Heart Foundation said aspirin was useful in people at very high risk of heart attacks and stroke. "

Who is that?

Here's a recent evaluation of people:

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/330/7499/1059

I don't find that aspirin article in bmj.com:

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/search?loct=ehom & andorexactfulltext=and & resourcetype=1 & disp_type= & sortspec=relevance & author1= & fulltext=aspirin & volume= & firstpage=

Regards.

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Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 8:49 AM

Subject: RE: [ ] Problems with Aspirin in Older People?

This sounds like common sense. I thought low dose aspirin was "only" advocatedfor people with previous heart attacks or known problems. If we eat less and live right.... foods, drugs, supplements, etc that prove helpful tosedentary, overweight, and malnutrite, may be either useless or perhaps dangerous tous. The vast majority of popular research may not be very applicable to our lifestyles.This one sounds an IMO useful warning. I suggest recent questions about statins etc, may fall into the same category.Be well,JR