Aspirin No Longer Recommended to Prevent Heart Disease or Stroke Due to Brain Bleed Risk

The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology have stopped recommending aspirin to prevent heart disease or stroke for healthy older Americans, reports KLFY . A review of past studies of more than 130,000 people aged 42 to 74 showed the drug can cause severe bleeding inside the skull. Subjects given a placebo had a 0.46 percent risk of having bleeding inside their skulls, versus a 0.63 percent risk for takers of low-dose aspirin. People of Asian backgrounds and those with a body mass index of less than 25 had the greatest brain bleed risk, according to the research.