Posted on 11/30/2021 12:15:03 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Aspirin use is associated with a 26% raised risk of heart failure in people with at least one predisposing factor for the condition. Predisposing factors included smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
"This is the first study to report that among individuals with a least one risk factor for heart failure, those taking aspirin were more likely to subsequently develop the condition than those not using the medication," said study author Dr. Blerim Muja.
The influence of aspirin on heart failure is controversial. This study aimed to evaluate its relationship with heart failure incidence in people with and without heart disease and assess whether using the drug is related to a new heart failure diagnosis in those at risk.
The average age of participants was 67 years and 34% were women. At baseline, a total of 7,698 participants (25%) were taking aspirin. During the 5.3-year follow-up, 1,330 participants developed heart failure.
The investigators assessed the association between aspirin use and incident heart failure after adjusting for sex, age, body mass index, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, heart rate, blood cholesterol, creatinine, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and treatment with renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system inhibitors, calcium channel blockers, diuretics, beta-blockers and lipid-lowering drugs. Taking aspirin was independently associated with a 26% raised risk of a new heart failure diagnosis.
To check the consistency of the results, the researchers repeated the analysis after matching aspirin users and non-users for heart failure risk factors. In this matched analysis, aspirin was associated with a 26% raised risk of a new heart failure diagnosis. To check the results further, the analysis was repeated after excluding patients with a history of cardiovascular disease. In 22,690 participants (74%) free of cardiovascular disease, aspirin use was associated with a 27% increased risk of incident heart failure.
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Butter bad,
butter good.
Milk bad,
milk good.
Margarine good,
margarine bad.
Coffee bad,
coffee good.
Wine bad,
wine good.
Etc etc etc etc etc etc etc
Does this crap ever end?
I pay zero attention to these things anymore. Always used butter, ate eggs and bacon, drink alcohol and coffee (sometimes together, sometimes not) and so on.
I don’t give a crap anymore what they say. I am going to live my life as best I can for as long as I can.
Some people are like frikking yo-yo’s with this stuff.
I can’t be bothered with it.
“Torture the data enough and it will tell you anything you want it to say.”
Hmmmm, good point. How many more millions started the low dose as a heart attack preventative. That’s skewed... more people on low dose the percentages of that data set would surely rise.
Every doctor I have wants me to take a baby aspirin every day
As soon as reports came out that aspirin could be beneficial in treating Covid-19, the articles soon started appearing that aspirin was harmful and people shouldn’t be taking it.
What should we believe? The doctors have all been wrong up to now and we should discount everything they previously said, or are they wrong now and we should discount everything they are currently saying? Because no matter which it is, the doctors are incorrect on the issue, either now or then. Trust the science they say. Which science, I ask?
I only read the lead-in. There is a potential bias in this study, since, people with those ailments are already largely taking aspirin daily as a blood thinner; and those ailments are themselves more likely to cause heart failure in and of themselves.
I’d have to read more to see how they controlled for this bias.
Aspirin was the across the board good thing for your heart. Then in July, someone released a study saying it was actually very good at preventing covid hospitalization.
Then the “deadly aspirin” stories flooded in.
Living bad.
Dying good!......................
they now trying to discredit it?
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I would believe NOTHING from the medical “ profession” since the C flu. There is nothing clean, pure or righteous about this current administration, they have corrupted everything. We are living in perilous times.
LOL - RIGHT ON.
Four years ago, I would not have believed that elite globalist plans for
mass population reduction existed.
Now it’s hard to find a better explanation for what we are seeing.
Indeed. Doctors have been advising people with these conditions to take at least low dose aspirin daily. The summary just says more likely to have heart failure - but in what timeframe? Sooner or later than if the disease itself were left without aspirin treatment?
It’s also a broad list of co-morbidities. Smoker, diabetics, hypertension, cholesterol, obese, previous CVD etc. Are these all lumped together as if they are they same disease? Does one or more of these co-morbidities tip the scale for the entire group?
I remember my grandparents cooking with lard. Packaged blocks of lard were readily sold in food markets. It sure made potatoes and other fried food taste good.
Now I wonder if its no worse than shortening. Especially since a recent study from Israel said that palm oil leads to increased cardiovascular problems.
Heh.
They’re just info-spamming to deflect from the clot shot problem.
IT’S OMICRON, NO IT’S ASPIRIN, NO IT’S GLOBAL WARMING! IT’S DEFINITELY NOT THE VACCINE!
Yikes! I’m switching to oranges!
Funny.
The blood thinning benefit may be outweighed by other factors.
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