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Articles matching the ‘aspirin’ Category

Podcast 154: Treating heart failure’s hypercoagulable state — warfarin or aspirin?

Joe Elia • May 2nd, 2012

Categories: aspirin, Audio, Heart failure, Uncategorized, warfarin

(9 votes, average: 3.11 out of 5)

Heart failure brings problems associated with hypercoagulation, such as stroke and sudden death. An international study followed some 2300 patients with heart failure (ejection fractions of 35% or less) and in stable sinus rhythm for a mean of 3.5 years, randomizing them to treatment with either warfarin or aspirin. The two treatment groups showed [...]

Podcast 136: Aspirin lowers colorectal risks in Lynch syndrome — what are the implications for everyone else?

Joe Elia • November 4th, 2011

Categories: aspirin, Audio, colorectal cancer, Lynch syndrome, Uncategorized

(7 votes, average: 3.71 out of 5)

Last week’s Lancet article on the effect of aspirin on risks for colorectal cancer in patients with Lynch syndrome — a group at particularly high risk — may hold implications for preventing sporadic colon cancers. Our interview with Prof. Sir John Burn, the study’s first author, explores those implications as well speculations on why  [...]