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  2. Daily low-dose aspirin has its benefits — and risks. Here's ...

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    Based on all of that, the USPSTF concluded that taking a daily aspirin can increase the risk of having major gastrointestinal bleeding by up to 60% and brain bleeding up to 30%.

  3. Many Older Adults Take Daily Aspirin to Cut Cardiovascular ...

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    Many Americans 60 years and older still take daily aspirin to help prevent cardiovascular disease, even though it can pose significant health risks. ... were women, and about one-third were non ...

  4. If you take aspirin daily, you could raise your risk of this ...

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    More than 40% of adults aged 60 and up take a daily aspirin to lower the risk of blood clots, but it’s a recommendation that many doctors have cut back on making over the past few years due to ...

  5. Aspirin - Wikipedia

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    Nine years later however, the USPSTF issued a grade B recommendation for the use of low-dose aspirin (75 to 100 mg/day) "for the primary prevention of CVD [cardiovascular disease] and CRC in adults 50 to 59 years of age who have a 10% or greater 10-year CVD risk, are not at increased risk for bleeding, have a life expectancy of at least 10 ...

  6. Salicylate poisoning - Wikipedia

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    Salicylate poisoning. A skeletal structural formula for aspirin. Salicylate poisoning, also known as aspirin poisoning, is the acute or chronic poisoning with a salicylate such as aspirin. [1] The classic symptoms are ringing in the ears, nausea, abdominal pain, and a fast breathing rate. [1]

  7. History of aspirin - Wikipedia

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    History of aspirin. Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid), an organic compound that does not occur in nature, was first synthesised in 1899. In 1897, scientists at the drug and dye firm Bayer began investigating acetylated organic compounds as possible new medicines, following the success of acetanilide ten years earlier.

  8. Daily aspirin use among older adults remains prevalent ...

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    A recent survey found that while the number of adults using aspirin to prevent heart disease has decreased, about one-third of adults ages 60 and older without heart disease were still taking ...

  9. Cardiovascular disease - Wikipedia

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    In the United States 11% of people between 20 and 40 have CVD, while 37% between 40 and 60, 71% of people between 60 and 80, and 85% of people over 80 have CVD. [2] The average age of death from coronary artery disease in the developed world is around 80, while it is around 68 in the developing world. [ 14 ]