Aspirin Fails Again for Primary Prevention

Again, I submit that "Fitness is the only REAL preventive medicine." (tm)

"Aspirin is ineffective for primary prevention of cardiovascular events even in high-risk diabetics, researchers found...

Rates of death from stroke or coronary artery disease were similar between the groups in the randomized trial. The trial, which also looked at coronary disease and antioxidants, found no benefit in primary prevention for that intervention either.

This should come as little surprise, commented William R. Hiatt, M.D., of the University of Colorado in Denver, in an accompanying editorial.

Six other well-controlled trials, including the Women's Health Study and Physicians' Health Study, have shown no benefit for aspirin in primary prevention even for at-risk patients despite the well-established benefits in secondary prevention, he said...

Dr. Hiatt was part of the FDA panel that in 2003 rejected labeling aspirin for primary prevention, citing universally negative primary prevention trials, which also failed to show a significant benefit for high-risk populations, including diabetics.

Although aspirin is cheap, universally available, and recommended in American Heart Association guidelines, the evidence just isn't there for patients without established symptomatic cardiovascular disease, he said."

Seems as if fitness is better than cheap drugs.

Your choice.