Non PD-Can Aspirin Save Your Life?

[judith richards <judithr@xxxxxxxx>]

I remember someone asking about this quite a while ago...

Can Aspirin Save Your Life?

by Roger S. Blumenthal, M.D., F.A.C.C.

Recent television commercials have suggested that taking an aspirin
while experiencing the symptoms of a heart attack can help save a
person's life. Other advertisements say that for those who have survived
a first heart attack, aspirin can help prevent another. <snip>

People who believe they are having a heart attack should promptly chew a
full aspirin. This helps prevent the development as well as the
propagation of a blood clot that may be apt to form at the site of a
ruptured atherosclerotic plaque. Aspirin inhibits platelet aggregation,
which is involved in the process of blood clot formation. <snip>

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Judith Richards, London, Ontario, Canada
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