If you’ve had a heart attack, your doctor likely told you to take a low-dose aspirin daily to stave off a second heart attack or stroke, but most people don’t follow through with this advice over the long-term.
attack,” said Dr. Deepak Bhatt, director of Mount Sinai Heart and professor of cardiovascular medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York City.
such as aspirin, which can be life saving in heart attack patients,” said Bhatt, who had no role in the research. The researchers followed more than 40,100 people aged 40 or older who had a first-time heart attack from 2004 through 2017. The study team checked up on aspirin use two, four, six, and eight years after theirto see who was still taking daily aspirin regularly. Anyone using other blood thinners was not included in the study.
People stopped consistently taking aspirin over time. At two years, 90% of heart attack survivors were still taking daily aspirin consistently, and this fell to 84% at four years, 82% at six years, and 81% at eight years, the study showed. People who didn't take aspirin consistently were more likely to have another heart attack, aor die at all follow-up points. At four years, the risk for nonadherent patients was 40% higher compared to patients who took low-dose aspirin as prescribed.
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