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Correct. Promoting aspirin as "good for the heart" is too generic of a phrase; such generalization may lead to healthy people unnecessarily taking a daily aspir
by soundwave106 10y ago
Correct. Promoting aspirin as "good for the heart" is too generic of a phrase; such generalization may lead to healthy people unnecessarily taking a daily aspirin just because it is "good for the heart".
Aspirin is prescribed for some specific conditions due to its antiplatelet effect. From what I understand, for normal healthy people, there isn't much benefit of daily aspirin. And, there is potential for some side effects -- in addition to the same stomach problems / heartburn issues that plague other NSAIDS also has some bleeding type issues due to the antiplatelet effect.
- emodendroket 10y ago> Correct. Promoting aspirin as "good for the heart" is too generic of a phrase; such generalization may lead to healthy people unnecessarily taking a daily aspirin just because it is "good for the heart". Well, Bayer runs (or ran) ads encouraging just that behavior.
- cgvgffyv 10y ago> Well, Bayer runs (or ran) ads encouraging just that behaviour. Such a thing would never fly in Europe. They'd get laughed out of the room and sued.
- emodendroket 10y agoBe that as it may, their German scruples didn't stop them from running a huge ad campaign in the US to this effect.
- soundwave106 10y agoI remember those ads. Googling, it looks like the FTC did rebuke Bayer for their behavior in 2000. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1070790/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1070790/