Thread: why Aspirin is good for heart ?

why Aspirin is good for heart ?

asprin is a blood thinner, with thin blood your heart doesnt have to work as hard to move it around the body

aspirin murders my stomach

Nonprescription aspirin is also used to prevent heart attacks in people who have had a heart attack in the past or who have angina (chest pain that occurs when the heart does not get enough oxygen). Nonprescription aspirin is also used to reduce the risk of death in people who are experiencing or who have recently experienced a heart attack. Nonprescription aspirin is also used to prevent ischemic strokes (strokes that occur when a blood clot blocks the flow of blood to the brain) or mini-strokes (strokes that occur when the flow of blood to the brain is blocked for a short time) in people who have had this type of stroke or mini-stroke in the past.

Basically it reduces platelet stickiness. This means that they do not clump together and reduces the chances that they block blood vessels. However there is an element of double edged sword, they also increase the risk of upper gastrointestinal bleeding and death caused by this bleeding. 75mgs of aspirin doubles your bleeding risk, 150 mgs quadruples it and a 300 mg aspirin tablet increases it by a factor of 8. Thus when a decision is made to put a patient on aspirin a risk benefit calculation needs to be made.