ISLAMABAD, August 19 (online): The authors of a recent study found that healthy older adults who took a daily, low dose of aspirin were at higher risk of receiving a diagnosis of advanced cancers and dying from cancer than those who took a placebo.
The findings raise the possibility that taking aspirin every day may make cancers worse once they have developed in this age group.
In recent years, there have been high hopes that taking a daily, low dose of aspirin might help protect older people from dementia, cognitive decline, and cancer.
Doctors widely prescribe daily aspirin to people at high risk of cardiovascular problems.
In addition, some clinical trials involving mostly middle-aged adults have found that aspirin may reduce the risk of developing cancer, especially colorectal cancer.
However, until recently, evidence for the drug’s use as a preventive treatment in otherwise healthy older people has been lacking.
Researchers carried out the recent study.
They analyzed results from the Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) trial, which included 19,114 individuals living in Australia and the United States. None of the participants had cardiovascular disease, dementia, or physical disability at the start of the study.
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