In 1988, after medical researchers studied a small group of men who were at high risk for heart attacks, they found that taking daily doses of aspirin cut the risk of heart attacks in half.

However, they also found the same dosage of aspirin caused the men to suffer more strokes.

The day after this report was published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, the drug companies flooded the media with press releases stating that “an aspirin a day” could prevent heart attacks.

For more than a decade, people have swallowed aspirin daily in a misguided effort to protect their cardiac health. Instead of making them healthier, the aspirin is increasing their risk of stroke and serious gastrointestinal damage, as well as numerous other potential side effects.

Researchers recently found more evidence that the so-called “aspirin therapy” increases the risk of brain hemorrhage, also known as hemorrhagic stroke. The research indicated that although aspirin decreased the risk for heart attack by 32%, it increasedthe risk for stroke by 84%.

SOURCE: Health Watch, Vol. 3, No. 9.