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Medical researchers have long known that taking regular doses of aspirin lowers the incidence of heart attack in some people with cardiovascular disease, the nation's leading killer. In study after study since the 1960s, however, they have sought to determine whether aspirin can help prevent heart trouble in healthy individuals. The results have been mixed: while some studies showed that aspirin decreased the number of attacks, others failed to demonstrate any benefit at all. Last week a report in the New England Journal of Medicine found that taking one aspirin every other day dramatically reduced the risk...
...million, six-year U.S. study, conducted by Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, covered 22,071 male physicians, ages 40 to 84, with no ) history of prior heart disease or stroke, for an average of 4.8 years. Half the group took a 325-mg tablet of aspirin every other day, the lowest dose the researchers considered both safe and effective; the other half received a placebo. This past December a board of medical experts monitoring the study decided that the results were "sufficiently compelling," as Yale Cardiologist Lawrence Cohen put it, to interrupt the study...
...data showed that while the placebo group had suffered 189 heart attacks, the group taking aspirin had only 104. Moreover, taking aspirin also produced a reduction in the number of cardiac deaths. Still, researchers were concerned that aspirin, which works by preventing clots in the bloodstream, might lead to an increase in certain kinds of strokes; the suspended study showed a slight increase of such strokes among the aspirin takers...
Results from the British trial were less conclusive. In a six-year study of 5,139 physicians, half took 500 mg of aspirin every day. Oxford University researchers found no reduction in heart attacks. They did see, however, a small but troubling excess of strokes. "Some things are clear," says Sir Richard Doll, who led the investigation. "For anybody who has had a heart attack in the past, it is beneficial to take a small dose of aspirin daily. That's unanimous. The dispute is over what healthy people should...
...recent years the Rochester company has branched out into fields as far-ranging as computer disks and batteries. Last week Kodak made its most sweeping diversification move yet. The firm agreed to pay $5.1 billion to acquire Sterling Drug, the maker of such popular products as Bayer aspirin and Lysol cleaners. New York City-based Sterling welcomed the agreement as a way of escaping a takeover bid by F. Hoffmann-La Roche, the Swiss drug company...