Does aspirin therapy reduce cardiovascular events in women and men for primary prevention?
Women and men without prior cardiovascular events (primary prevention)
Aspirin therapy
Composite of cardiovascular eventscomposite
In primary prevention, aspirin reduces cardiovascular events with sex-specific benefits (ischemic stroke in women, MI in men) but significantly increases bleeding risk in both sexes.
For women and men, aspirin therapy reduced the risk of a composite of cardiovascular events due to its effect on reducing the risk of ischemic stroke in women and MI in men. Aspirin significantly increased the risk of bleeding to a similar degree among women and men.
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Jeffrey S. Berger
General Cardiology
Maria Carla Roncaglioni
Preventive Cardiology
Fausto Avanzini
University of Turin
JAMA
Stony Brook University
Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
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Berger et al. (Tue,) studied this question.
synapsesocial.com/papers/69d5715775589c71d767e090 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.295.3.306