The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7345 p444
16 April 2005

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All people over 50 should take a daily low-dose aspirin

All people over the age of 50 years should take 75mg aspirin daily, according to a researcher from the University of Wales College of Medicine.

Low-dose aspirin is currently recommended for patients who have a 3 per cent risk of a vascular event in the next five years. Speaking at an Aspirin Foundation conference in London this week Peter Elwood described how his team applied an accepted risk formula to 2,500 subjects and found that by the age of 50 years, 80 per cent of them had a level of risk above this threshold.

His paper has been accepted for publication by the BMJ.