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Increases risk for hemorrhagic strokes as well. AFAIUI, your clotting ability is impaired, so if you get a minor bleed, it's not minor for long. IIRC, the rec
by 01100011 3y ago
Increases risk for hemorrhagic strokes as well. AFAIUI, your clotting ability is impaired, so if you get a minor bleed, it's not minor for long.
IIRC, the recommendations to folks taking aspirin for heart attack prevention is "don't, unless you've already had an ischemic event" because the risk outweighs the benefits for everyone else. That could change if we find new and/or unexpected benefits from low-dose aspirin.
- objektif 3y agoI am very skeptical about these side effect claims. Do you have hard data supporting this or doctor hearsay. Years ago I remember watching Charlie Rose Brain series where one of the professors said something like “ we know of two drugs that we are certain are very safe for human beings: alcohol and aspirin.”
- voisin 3y ago> “ we know of two drugs that we are certain are very safe for human beings: alcohol and aspirin.” I am not sure I understand. We know alcohol isn’t safe, let alone very safe, in any quantity. So immediately this seems contradictory?
- ergonaught 3y agoThat appears to have been the point.
- nomel 3y agoAspirin's bleeding risk is very well studied. You can find many papers showing between around 30% increase in the brain, and around 60% for the gut.
- pinko 3y agoAnecdata: even a few days of low-dose aspirin causes me terrible GI pain and exacerbates an otherwise 30-year dormant ulcer. I would love to be able to take it, but I can't tolerate it at all.
- throwaway290 3y agoWhat was your dosage? Tried dissolving in water?
- Turing_Machine 3y agoHave you tried the "enteric coated" aspirin? The coating is supposed to resist dissolving until the pill is well past your stomach.
- _yb2s 3y agoThose are both drugs with very significant risks
- mvkel 3y agoAlcohol has a bunch of recent studies showing that no amount is good, and as little as two drinks per week yield measurable negative impacts.
- Scoundreller 3y agowhat if I do all the other things that go along with drinking for health, like speak Italian or French while I drink?
- robocat 3y agoFirst search hit: They report preventable deaths caused by alcohol is higher in France than anywhere else in Europe. Speaking French doesn't appear to help you. Maybe Italian is better.
- Scoundreller 3y agomeh, I just care about all-cause mortality. I'll accept some preventable death risk if it's outweighed by non-preventable death risk improvement. I think the French hit a good sweet spot between high alcohol consumption and high life expectancy. Quite a male-female disparity though. Maybe Irish do better at 0.2years reduction for an extra 0.4l of alcohol per year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_c...
- mk67 3y agoSounds like bs if you look at Russian numbers.
- justin66 3y agoAlmost all strokes are ischemic strokes.
- romafirst3 3y agobut heart attacks are not strokes
- justin66 3y agoThank God we cleared that up.
- romafirst3 3y agoYou are welcome, it’s easy to get confused when trying to comprehend passages on the internet.
- Scoundreller 3y agoyes, hemorrhagic strokes are less frequent, but much worse. I don't think it's quite a wash in the end, but closer to one if all we care about is outcomes (and that's all I do!)