Untangling the New Daily Aspirin Study: Many Don’t Really Need It

January 16, 2015

(ABC News) – If you’re taking aspirin to prevent heart attack and stroke, there’s a chance you may not need to be popping the little white pills after all. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and several other health institutions studied records of 69,000 people taking daily aspirin for primary prevention of heart attack and stroke. They concluded that more than 1 in 10 of them didn’t need to be taking the over-the-counter drug because their risk of developing heart disease was too low to warrant a daily aspirin regimen, according to the study published this week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.