What is the latest advice on aspirin?

The USPSTF has changed the age ranges and grades of its recommendation on aspirin use. The USPSTF currently recommends considering initiating aspirin in persons with an estimated 10% or greater CVD risk at a younger age: 40 years instead of 50 years.

Why aspirin is no longer recommended?

While daily aspirin use has been shown to lower the chance of having a first heart attack or stroke, it can also increase the risk for bleeding in the brain, stomach and intestines.

Is it still recommended to take aspirin daily?

Should you take a daily aspirin? Don’t start taking a daily aspirin without talking to your health care provider. While taking an occasional aspirin or two is safe for most adults to use for headaches, body aches or fever, daily use of aspirin can have serious side effects, including gastrointestinal bleeding.

Should everyone over 60 take aspirin?

Health experts warn bleeding risks can outweigh cardiovascular benefits. Adults 60 and older should not start taking aspirin to lower their risk of a first heart attack or stroke, according to final recommendations issued April 26 by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Is 81mg aspirin still recommended?

Low-dose aspirin (81 to 100 milligrams, aka baby aspirin) has long been recommended as a safe and inexpensive way to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), heart attacks, strokes and blood clots.

What aspirin is good for high blood pressure?

Low-dose aspirin is known to reduce the risk of heart attack in high-risk patients. It also seems to help lower high blood pressure, but studies looking at this effect yield confusing results.

Is there an alternative to aspirin for blood thinning?

What’s the alternative to aspirin? People who are advised to take an aspirin by their doctor but can’t, most commonly because they are sensitive asthmatics, can sometimes take the drug clopidogrel. This drug inhibits the blood platelets but doesn’t affect cyclooxygenase.

Should I take aspirin if I have Covid?

The use of an antiplatelet agent, mainly aspirin, might improve clinical outcomes without increasing the risk of side effects such as bleeding. Aspirin is a safe, cheap, universally available and well-tolerated medication. Using this drug in patients with COVID-19 should be encouraged unless contraindicated.