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| Epidemiological modelling of routine use of low dose aspirin for the primary prevention of coronary heart disease and stroke in those aged above 70 | | Author(s) | Mark R Nelson, Danny Liew, Melanie Bertram |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 330, no 7503, 4 June 2005 |
| Pages | pp 1306-1308 |
| Source | http://www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | Drugs ; Preventative medicine ; Heart disease ; Stroke ; Clinical surveys ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Current US guidelines recommend the use of low dose aspirin in people with a raised risk of cardiovascular and coronary disease. Implementation of these guidelines would mean that most older people would be prescribed aspirin. Epidemiological modelling suggests that the reduction in incident myocardial infarction and ischaemic stroke with routine use of low dose aspirin in older people may be offset by increased cases of serious bleeding. These findings relate to 10,000 men and 10,000 women in the state of Victoria, Australia aged 70-74 in 2000 with no cardiovascular disease. The findings are tempered by wide confidence intervals, indicating that the overall outcome could be beneficial or adverse. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050624201 A |
| Classmark | LLD: LK2: CQH: CQA: 3G: 7YA * |
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