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Talk to your doctor about going on low-dose aspirin therapy, 1 or 2 baby aspirins...
Some ulcers, however, can't be pinned on H. pylori. Instead, they are caused by prescription and over-the-counter anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen, aspirin and naproxen, that interfere with the body's mechanism for protecting the stomach lining. The ulcers are particularly common among the elderly, who take a lot of those medicines. Healing begins as soon as you stop taking the drugs...
That finding comes from the Nurses' Health Study, a long-term project involving more than 80,000 women. Most of them took aspirin for pain. But when the researchers looked deeper, they found that those who took more than 14 regular-strength (325 mg) aspirins a week for more than 10 years lowered their risk of colorectal cancer by 53%, and those who took fewer aspirins--6 to 14 a week--were 22% less likely to come down with this often fatal disease. That could be important news, especially if you are at high risk for colorectal cancer or have...
...aspirin has a downside. For every 1 or 2 women who were protected from cancer, 8 developed serious gastrointestinal bleeding. Keep in mind that the only way to get the maximum benefit was to take the higher doses of aspirin for at least a decade. Beyond that, Dr. Michael Thun of the American Cancer Society says, "We are not even sure which group of people will gain enough benefit to exceed the risks...
...helping to fuel a more aggressive focus on prevention. If a cardiac scan shows your doctor that you have mild coronary artery disease, then, in addition to trying to get your LDL cholesterol level under 70 mg/dL, he or she is probably going to put you on a daily aspirin regimen and make sure your blood pressure is nice and low. "Conversely," says Cannon, "if you have a scan and you're normal, you don't have to start taking five different medications...