1 year prior to my event I was taking an 85 aspirin a day. When I went on my week long canoe trip in Canada I did not take my pills and supplements along. The day after I returned I had my stroke. Initially I was kicking myself for dropping the aspirin, thinking that if I had kept up the dosage I wouldn't have had the stroke. But eventually someone told me that the aspirin would have stayed in the bloodstream for a week. That's a question for your doctor.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/257909.php
A new study out of the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry shows a large population of healthy people are taking Aspirin to prevent cardiovascular disease, despite the fact that new literature shows it isn't as beneficial as once thought.
Olga Szafran and Mike Kolber, in the Department of Family Medicine at
the University of Alberta, surveyed patients over the age of 50 at two
clinics in Alberta. They found that more than 40 per cent of people who
don't suffer from cardiovascular disease are popping pills daily to
prevent a heart attack or stroke - a practice called primary prevention.
"A lot of this comes from many years ago where they did this study on
physicians and it showed that physicians who take Aspirin seem to do
better than those who don't," said Kolber. "The problem is, physicians
aren't a generalized group of people, physicians are healthier and
they're educated. All the literature that's been coming out over the
last three to five years, said Aspirin for primary prevention really
doesn't change long-term mortality."
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