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Taking low-dose aspirin is associated with 20% reduction in cancer deaths

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Re: Taking low-dose aspirin is associated with 20% reduction in cancer deaths

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It always amazes me how you can take numbers and twist them they way they fit you and be technically correct. I bet many (if not most) people will only remember the headline.

Check out the famous book "How to Lie with Statistics"

This is the book that was next to Bill Gates during his television interviews a few years back when we considered him a health professional.

Re: Taking low-dose aspirin is associated with 20% reduction in cancer deaths

#82

although indiscriminate long term aspiring can cause GI side effects

I'm annoyed that the FDA has kept cox-2 selective inhibitors restricted when the data I've seen shows they have lower GI risks and similar cardiovascular risks as other NSAIDs.

Oh i remember reading all of these studies 10 years ago and thinking they had so much potential relative to the small but significant risk in MI. I hope they are reevaluated at some point.

Re: Taking low-dose aspirin is associated with 20% reduction in cancer deaths

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Probably more like lower inflammation reduces all cause mortality.

I wonder if this is a reduction in mortality that was caused by an increase in chronic inflammation from modern life, stress and obesity. In a healthy fit human, inflammation is a good thing, it is the body's construction and maintenance crew. Chronic inflammation is not good, but that is a side effect of an underlying issue (in my understanding so far)

if you're periodically under construction that's a good thing.

if you're always under construction it means shit is falling apart

Re: Taking low-dose aspirin is associated with 20% reduction in cancer deaths

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but heart attacks are not strokes

Thank God we cleared that up.

You are welcome, it’s easy to get confused when trying to comprehend passages on the internet.

Re: Taking low-dose aspirin is associated with 20% reduction in cancer deaths

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I am very skeptical about these side effect claims. Do you have hard data supporting this or doctor hearsay. Years ago I remember watching Charlie Rose Brain series where one of the professors said something like “ we know of two drugs that we are certain are very safe for human beings: alcohol and aspirin.”

Anecdata: even a few days of low-dose aspirin causes me terrible GI pain and exacerbates an otherwise 30-year dormant ulcer. I would love to be able to take it, but I can't tolerate it at all.

Have you tried the "enteric coated" aspirin? The coating is supposed to resist dissolving until the pill is well past your stomach.

Re: Taking low-dose aspirin is associated with 20% reduction in cancer deaths

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Low-dose aspirin shouldn't be taken blindly. There was also hope triflusal was going to be safer than aspirin, but it's didn't do much better either.

https://www.stroke.org/en/life-after-stroke/preventing-anoth...

https://n.neurology.org/content/62/7/1073

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29866011/

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