{"id":156877,"date":"2025-09-20T15:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156877\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:49:11","slug":"should-you-be-taking-daily-aspirin-for-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156877\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you be taking daily aspirin for your heart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was once thought that taking daily aspirin was an effective way to prevent cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n<p>But a follow-up of a major study that involved more than 15,000 adults found no evidence of benefit \u2013 in fact there was evidence of some risk.<\/p>\n<p>The lead author of the study says older adults who have never experienced a cardiovascular event should discuss with their doctors the possibility of stopping the drug.<\/p>\n<p>Guest\/s<a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/research.monash.edu\/en\/persons\/rory-wolfe\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Rory Wolfe<\/a>, principle investigator of the ASPREE study and biostatistician at Monash UniversityReferences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was once thought that taking daily aspirin was an effective way to prevent cardiovascular disease. But a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[34858,104521,25653,64,63,13534,65900,12063,8112,137,5232,8122,40009,3755,58813,104522,7097,2681,1294,2349,11617,2286,58812,3281],"class_list":["post-156877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-aspirin","tag-aspree","tag-attack","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bleeding","tag-cardiovascular","tag-daily","tag-disease","tag-health","tag-heart","tag-medical","tag-norman-swan","tag-podcast","tag-preeya-alexander","tag-preventative","tag-prevention","tag-program","tag-risk","tag-show","tag-stroke","tag-study","tag-the-health-report","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}