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Or stroke and you're 60 or over, you should not be taking a daily aspirin according to a draft of these recommendations. that's because of the risk of bleeding. if you have not had a heart attack or stroke, you don't have a history of that and you're 40 to 49, you should take to your doctor. a daily aspirin may be helpful for you if you are at risk for having a heart attack or stroke but it may not be a good idea. this is an individual decision. you would have to make it with your doctor. >> why are these proposed changes happening now? >> i think what these experts were figuring out was that ...

If they want to think about or are worried about having a heart attack or stroke, worried about having a heart attack orstroke, really worried about having a heart attack or stroke, really should have a discussion their clinician about the individual harms and benefits of aspirin for them, for their age group, for their heart disease, stroke risk. and again for their bleeding risk. it that balance between harms and benefits because we want to prevent heart attacks and strokes and as you know if the leading cause of mortality as well as can be disabling and we want to prevent that for all peopl...

Aspirin. however, if you're older, something bad could happen if you take an aspirin a day, and that is you could bleed too much. too much aspirin can make you bleed too much and that gets more likely as we age. let's take a look at draft recommendations and what they're saying. what they're saying is first of all, and this is so important, if you've had a heart attack or a stroke, and your doctor says take a baby aspirin or aspirin a day, take an aspirin a day. if you have had a heart attack or stroke and your doctor is saying to take an aspirin, take it. however, if you have not had a heart ...

The study including one in the new england journal of medicine found aspirin did not extend life or ward off disability for this group and, in fact, increased their risk of suffering a major hemorrhage as o poedz to those taking a placebo. chief of cardiology at st. joseph's hospital explains its findings. >> there are no free lunches with any drug that you take, even over the counter drugs. aspirin always has been around for a long long time as a medicine, and people take it without a prescription. but the bleeding risk is there and needs to be considered. >> reporter: so the american college...

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