A common medicine that threatens your life by eating it daily .. What is it?

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – According to a recent study, healthy people who take aspirin daily to prevent heart attacks later in life could do more harm than good.

For medical and other reasons, aspirin is used to treat heart patients, to stop heart attacks and strokes, but many healthy, middle-aged people take pills. Aspirin as an "insurance policy" against heart problems.

The study, which includes data from more than 160,000 people, concluded that the risk of major internal bleeding far outweighed the benefits of aspirin in people without illness. heart. The researchers found that the risk of heart attack in healthy patients using aspirin decreased by 11% with an increased risk of bleeding by 43%, which meant that 265 people would have to take aspirin for 5 years to prevent a heart attack or stroke. Out of 210 people will suffer from large bleeding.

Thus, the use of aspirin requires a discussion between the patient and his doctor, knowing that the potential cardiovascular benefits are modest and weighed against the real risk of severe bleeding.

The risk of aspirin-related bleeding may vary among groups of people and additional research may reveal people who see benefits beyond risks, opening the way to personal treatments.