You hear it from your doctors. You hear it from your friends and relatives. You hear it on TV. You hear it, well, all the time: Aspirin can help prevent future heart attacks.
You hear it for good reason, because it does.
That is, unless you are a person with diabetes. Researchers from the Sianai Hospital of Baltimore recently demonstrated that the standard dose of aspirin may not provide adequate protection against future heart attack. Studying 120 aspirin treated patients -- 30 of which had diabetes -- with stable coronary artery disease, the researchers discovered that diabetic patients showed a greater proclivity to aspirin resistance than non-diabetic patients.
This does not mean that aspirin cannot help people with diabetes in preventing future heart attacks, rather it merely points out that physicians should refrain from, as one researcher put it, "the one-size-fits-all approach to aspirin therapy."
1. According to the article, only 30 patients w/Diabetes were studied(not enough). It did not specify whether the patients had IRD(aka Type 2 Diabetes) or T1DM.
Since the article presupposes that those w/"Diabetes" and CAD may have a resistance to low-dose Aspirin@81mg, does that then mean an increase in acetylsalicylic acid is advisable?
Posted at 8:43PM on Apr 4th 2007 by BetterCell