Should You Take Aspirin to Prevent Heart Attack?

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Should You Take Aspirin to Prevent Heart Attack? http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/abstracts/v14n4a5.php Joel M. Kauffman, Research Professor Chemistry, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, 600 South 43rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 The majority of physicians in the USA recommend aspirin for prevention of first heart attacks to almost everyone over the age of 50, even though women have not been included in the clinical trials of aspirin. While aspirin does prevent about 1/3 of first heart attacks, its side-effects are so severe as to cause a higher death rate overall than placebo. Non-fatal side-effects, such as internal bleeding and cataracts, are significant after years of aspirin use. The major study on which most recommendations are based did not utilize aspirin alone; therefore, the calcium and magnesium present in the buffered aspirin actually taken may have been responsible for some of the beneficial effects. Supplemental magnesium and vitamin E have been shown to be more effective than aspirin in lowering heart attack rates as well as overall death rates. Aspirin does reduce the incident of second heart attacks by about 1/5 when taken for a few weeks. Supplemental magnesium and coenzyme Q10 have been shown to be more effective than aspirin in treatment of cardiovascular disease. Keywords: aspirin, heart attack, cardiovascular disease, stroke, vitamin E, coenzyme Q10, magnesium, potassium Article:Should You Take Aspirin to Prevent Heart Attack? http://www.rss.org.uk/pdf/Should%20you%20take%20aspirin%20to%20prevent%20a%20heart%20attack.pdf and FULL TEXT http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/abstracts/v14n4a5.php