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Remember the old saying, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”? The significance of that time-honored philosophy continues to grow, especially when the illness that’s being prevented is this country’s number one killer — heart disease.
Reducing the risk of heart disease by not smoking, controlling high blood pressure and lowering blood cholesterol levels has always been important and remains so. But the Physicians’ Health Study, recently released by Harvard University, has added another preventive measure to the list — aspirin.
The result of the study with more than 22,000 physicians showed the risk of heart attack for participants who took aspirin every other day was 47 percent less than those who received a pill containing no medication. While earlier studies showed a link between taking aspirin and a decreased risk of a second heart attack, a definite link is now established between taking aspirin and a reduced risk of an initial attack.
That’s the good news, but there are risks for some people taking aspirin to offset their chances of heart attack.
The study showed that hemorrhagic strokes (bleeding into the brain) occurred more frequently in the aspirin group than in the placebo group. Because of this finding and other health risks associated with using aspi
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