Notion that an aspirin a day keep us safe from attack and heart failure is subject to serious doubt.
Although aspirin has numerous benefits some researches show that may be there is risk for complications after taking aspirin.
Studies conducted in recent years defending the claim that patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases can prevent heart failure from drinking one aspirin a day.
Aspirin is created over a century ago
But the largest study to date, which involved people with no previous heart disease, shows that most of these patients demonstrated no benefit from prophylactic administration of aspirin. Participants were even at risk of internal bleeding. For a period of about six years, during which patients received aspirin, cardiovascular problems were prevented for every 120 people. One in 73 people, however, received internal bleeding during the same period.
This leads scientists to conclude that the benefits of aspirin are overexposed and the fact that one in every 1,000 patients per year receives internal stomach bleeding is alarming.
In 1832 a German chemist make experiments with salicin and creates salicylic acid. The popular drug in the form we know it today is created by the company “Bayer” over a century ago. In 1897 the chemist Felix Hofman synthesizes a stable form of ASA powder. After two years the company distributes it to doctors to give it to their patients. There is no question that aspirin is cheap medicine without a prescription and is primarily intended to deal with pain and temperature.
In 1920’s aspirin is used for treatment of neuralgia, lumbago and rheumatism. The idea for an aspirin a day to protect form heart disease comes in 1948 when doctor Lawrence Craven, a California general practitioner notices that all 400 men he prescribed aspirin didn’t have heart attack. Then he started to recommend to all patients and colleagues to take one pill a day to protect themselves.
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