MANY OLDER ADULTS TAKE ASPIRIN FOR HEART DISEASE PREVENTION WITHOUT DOCTOR’S ADVICE
Around 1 in 6 older adults take aspirin as their primary method of preventing cardiovascular disease – despite stricter guidelines that no longer always call for it, a study finds.
Almost one-quarter of those aspirin users started taking the medication without a physician recommendation and 8% had not discussed their use with any health care provider.
The results, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, come from a survey of more than 2,500 adults aged 50 to 80 conducted for the University of Michigan's National Poll on Healthy Aging. The new paper builds on a previous poll report, with additional analysis.
2025-07-02T17:48:18Z