MANY STROKE, HEART ATTACK PATIENTS MAY NOT BENEFIT FROM ASPIRIN
February 25, 2008
February 25, 2008
BUFFALO, N.Y., Feb. 25 -- The University at Buffalo issued the following press release:
Up to 20 percent of patients taking aspirin to lower the risk of suffering a second cerebrovascular event do not have an antiplatelet response from aspirin, the effect thought to produce the protective effect, researchers at the University at Buffalo have shown.
"Millions of people use low-dose aspirin either for prevention of a second stroke, second heart attack or second e . . .
Up to 20 percent of patients taking aspirin to lower the risk of suffering a second cerebrovascular event do not have an antiplatelet response from aspirin, the effect thought to produce the protective effect, researchers at the University at Buffalo have shown.
"Millions of people use low-dose aspirin either for prevention of a second stroke, second heart attack or second e . . .