Family Medicine Update: Low-Dose Aspirin for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Japanese Patients 60 Years or Older With Atherosclerotic Risk Factors: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Low-Dose Aspirin for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Japanese Patients 60 Years or Older With Atherosclerotic Risk Factors: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Low dose aspirin was not effective in reducing the composite outcome of cardiovascular death, nonfatal stroke, or nonfatal myocardial infarction in this cohort of Japanese patients over 60 years of age with cardiovascular risk factors. (JAMA. 2014 Nov 17. doi: 10.1001/jama.2014.15690.)