The potential group prone to heart disease and stroke are over the age of 40 years, male, heredity genes, smoking, lack of exercise, obesity, diabetes, hypertension and under a lot of stress.
One cause of increasingly higher rates of death from heart disease is the lack of awareness and knowledge of most of the people about the importance of prevention of this disease early on. With a care and adequate knowledge, heart disease can be prevented.
Preventing heart disease with aspirin
Aspirin to prevent heard disease
The prevention of cardiovascular disease is divided into two, primary and secondary prevention. Primary prevention is the early prevention in individuals who have risk factors for cardiovascular disease but have not suffered cardiovascular events, whereas secondary prevention is done on individuals who have experienced cardiovascular events.
Aspirin was discovered 200 years ago and has been used as an antipyretic (fever-lowering drugs) and analgesics (pain). In the year 1973 it is established that aspirin contains Acetyl Salicylic Acid (ASA) which can reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke.
Acetyl Salicylic Acid (ASA) can be used as primary and secondary prevention of heart disease and blood vessels problems. ASA is recommended to be consumed by women at the age of more than 45 years, while men at 40 years. However, ASA can also be consumed by young people who have at least 1 risk factor as a precaution.
ASA affected platelets making it do not clot easily as well as working on the inner lining of blood vessels (endothelial) to produce vasodilator agent that can enlarged blood vessels.
The usage of low-dose ASA proved to lower the risk of ischemic stroke by 24%. It also reduce the risk of non-fatal stroke, non-fatal myocardial infarction (heart muscle damage) or death from cardiovascular disease in women aged 65 years and over by 26%.This is a findings obtained for Womens Health Study, the longest and largest studies ever conducted with low-dose ASA on 40,000 women aged 65 years and over who have no history of coronary heart disease or cerebrovascular (brain blood vessel disorder).
ASA can cause stomach irritation for some people. For these people they should choose enteric-coated ASA. This enteric-coated tablets will dissolve in the small intestine instead of the stomach as to not stimulate excessive stomach acid. ASA is also not recommended for patients with an ulcer intestine.
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