Sentences with phrase «people with aspirin»

«However, we need better ways to identify people with aspirin resistance before any changes can be made.

The study also found that in people with aspirin resistance the actual size of stroke appears larger.

Not exact matches

Do not give acetylsalicylic acid (ASA [eg, Aspirin]-RRB--- or any medicine containing it — to children and teenagers with colds because it can lead to brain and liver damage (Reye syndrome) if the person happens to have the flu.

Aspirin, lipstick, medications, and other items that people typically carry with them are dangerous to small children.

I put moaners with a cold insisting their GP give them a prescription for antibiotics in the same category as people going to A&E to get an aspirin for their mild headache, and I feel guilty whenever I take antibiotics or go to A&E but am not quite sure whether this course of action was justified.

So says a five - year retrospective study led by Malcolm Dunlop of the University of Edinburgh, UK, that compared the aspirin habits of 2800 people with cancer and 3000 without.

A major international study has found that the combination of two drugs — rivaroxaban and aspirin — is superior to aspirin alone in preventing further heart complications in people with vascular disease.

That consensus long insisted that most people with risk factors for heart disease ought to take a low dose of aspirin every day.

The people who were aspirin resistant also had larger areas of the brain affected by the stroke, as measured by MRI diffusion weighted imaging, with infarct size of 2.8 cc compared to 1.6 cc for those who responded to aspirin.

Aspirin, which was already known to help people with heart disease, seems to work primarily by reducing inflammation.

A 1975 paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association, for instance, showed that people infected with a common cold virus called the rhinovirus shed more virus particles if they were treated with aspirin than untreated patients.

This could be because many people with arthritis take drugs like aspirin and ibuprofen, which may tame inflammation that could otherwise contribute to causing dementia.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

For people living with both Type 2 diabetes and heart failure, taking an aspirin each day appears to lower the risk of dying or being hospitalized for heart failure, according to research being presented at the American College of Cardiology's 67th Annual Scientific Session.

One way to find out would be to look at people with the HD mutation that take a drug that dampens the immune response, like aspirin, every day and compare their HD symptoms to people who don't.

The risk: Garlic's blood - thinning properties may increase risk of bleeding associated with warfarin, a blood thinning drug commonly prescribed to people with heart - rhythm disorders and to people who have had heart attacks or heart - valve replacements, as well as aspirin.

«Because of some recent studies suggesting that the benefit is not very large, and because aspirin can also have risks (intestinal bleeding or hemorrhagic stroke), the January 2010 recommendations will recommend it mostly for higher - risk people than was the case in the past, when it was recommended for people with more moderate levels of risk and above,» says M. Sue Kirkman, MD, the vice president of clinical affairs for the ADA.

People who take aspirin daily are two to four times as likely to have upper gastrointestinal problems, such as an ulcer with complications, than those not taking aspirin (even if the aspirin is buffered or has a protective coating to limit stomach problems).

Dr. Kirkman stresses that people with diabetes who are taking aspirin — and have no history of heart attack — should talk to their doctor and see if he or she recommends continuing the therapy.

[pagebreak] For example, the researchers looked at two large studies of people with diabetes (one with 1,276 participants and the other with 2,539) and found that those who took 81 to 100 milligrams of aspirin daily were just as likely to have a heart attack or stroke in the next four to seven years as those who did not.

The findings should push more people toward the AHA and USPSTF advice, which calls for people to discuss with their doctor their individual risk and benefit ratio, rather than deciding that aspirin is or isn't right for them based on the drug's label.

Just like in people with the various non-steroidal products like ibuprofen, aspirin and acetaminophen, one sometimes works better for a particular individual than the other one.

I greeted the New Year like so many other people I know — with a financial hangover that no aspirin was going to cure.

Aspirin protected people against gastrointestinal cancers the most, the study found, with rates of death from these cancers around 54 percent lower after five years among those who took aspirin compared to those who dAspirin protected people against gastrointestinal cancers the most, the study found, with rates of death from these cancers around 54 percent lower after five years among those who took aspirin compared to those who daspirin compared to those who did not.