Editor’s Note: The following guest post by Dr. David Newman is reprinted with permission from his website and blog, Smartem.Org. Dr. Newman is an Emergency Physician and Director of Clinical Research at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed Hippocrates’ Shadow: Secrets From the House of…
Guest Post: Data, Drugs, And Deception– A True Story
Filed Under: Policy & Ethics, Prevention, Epidemiology & Outcomes Tagged With: metaanalysis, primary prevention, statins
Metaanalysis Raises More Questions About Routine Use of Aspirin for Primary Prevention
Although aspirin can reduce the risk of cardiovascular (CV) events, the associated increase in bleeding suggests that it should not be used routinely in people without prior CV disease, say the authors of a new meta-analysis published in Archives of Internal Medicine. Sreenivasa Rao Kondapally Seshasai and colleagues combined data from 9 clinical studies including…
Filed Under: Prevention, Epidemiology & Outcomes, Uncategorized Tagged With: aspirin, aspirin therapy, metaanalysis, primary prevention
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