The study confirmed that a daily baby aspirin increases the.
Baby aspirin dosage for elderly.
Now a new evidence review suggests that some healthy seniors and middle aged adults might gain a bit of benefit from taking daily aspirin.
Taking a daily aspirin to prevent heart attacks or stroke is ten times riskier for the elderly.
But for older healthy people the risks outweigh the benefits for taking low dose aspirin murray says.
In healthy elderly people who never had a heart attack the widespread practice of taking a baby aspirin every day may do more harm than good according to a u s australian study of more than.
Even low dose aspirin can increase the risk of bleeding in the gut.
Since the elderly are underrepresented in clinical trials the extent to which this risk influences the benefits of aspirin.
Low dose aspirin decreases the risk of heart attack and.
The primary risk is bleeding.