Daily doses of 100 mg of aspirin to prevent cardiovascular disease for life
Liaoning Provincial People's Hospital, vice president and director of the heart accounted Lee recently said in an interview, low-dose aspirin to reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease cheap and effective means of prevention. Already have coronary heart disease, peripheral vascular disease in patients with cerebral infarction and long-term low-dose aspirin can prevent disease from happening again, the event can reduce mortality and improve the quality of survival. Heart disease, cerebral infarction, the high-risk groups (healthy people), long-term low-dose aspirin to prevent coronary heart disease, cerebral infarction occurred first.
Cardiovascular disease who take aspirin
Risk factors include hypertension, diabetes, high blood lipids, abdominal obesity, smoking, lack of exercise, family history of premature coronary heart disease. When the men> 40 years old and have two or more of these risk factors, or> 50 years old and have one or more of these risk factors; women> 50 years old and have two or more of these risk factors, or> 60 years old and have one or more of these risk factors, it should be taking aspirin to prevent cardiovascular disease positive.
Who should not take aspirin
Gastrointestinal side effects of aspirin irritation, and bleeding. Therefore, gastric ulcer, bleeding tendency were disabled, while you are taking anticoagulant drugs such as warfarin, are currently receiving hormone therapy, after stenting also received when taking other drugs, and do not take aspirin.
How to aspirin
75 ~ 150mg daily aspirin is the best dose, usually after dinner every day for a doctor recommends taking 100mg. Select Enteric such as Aspirin, can reduce gastrointestinal side effects. Hypertensive patients had to be taken after 150mmHg systolic blood pressure control to prevent the occurrence of cerebral hemorrhage. Needs to be stressed is that aspirin is not addictive, but out aspirin, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease risk would be quickly restored to the original high-risk level. Therefore, patients need to keep on taking aspirin.
Reporter Wang Cai Li