March 7, 2005

Aspirin doesn't protect women against heart attacks, study shows

By Rob Stein
The Washington Post
Published on: 03/07/05

WASHINGTON — Aspirin does not protect women against heart attacks in the same way it does for men, but the venerable painkiller does cut women's chances of suffering a stroke, researchers reported Monday.

A long-awaited 10-year study of nearly 40,000 women, the biggest and best such study to date, provides the first strong evidence of the benefits of taking aspirin regularly for healthy women, a practice that many have already begun based largely on studies of men.

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