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

 

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Should You Take Aspirin to Prevent Heart Attack?

 

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