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...nurses will then be given either low doses of aspirin or a placebo for the duration of the study and their health will be regularly monitored in order to evaluate the aspirin-heart attack relationship...
...experiment will be double-blind, which means that not only will the nurses not know whether they have been given the aspirin or the placebo, but the researchers will not know either...
Previous studies have shown that aspirin can reduce the risk of heart attacks by interfering with the clotting of blood. Most heart attacks occur when blood vessels are narrowed and there is difficulty with blood flow. A blood clot may then develop in the vessel and block...
...most conclusive studies of the effect of aspirin on this process in men was conducted by Hennekens in 1982. Those results, obtained from a large sample of physicians, suggested that regular doses of aspirin reduced the risk of heart attacks...
Since men and women may respond differently to aspirin, Hennekens says, he felt that there was a need to conduct a similar study, this time on women...