The message for the public is that healthy older people should not begin taking aspirin. The study, named Aspree, is important because it addresses the unanswered question of whether healthy older people should take aspirin, said Dr. Dr. Evan Hadley, director of the division of geriatrics and gerontology at the National Institute on Aging, which helped pay for the research. “For healthy older people, there’s still a good reason to talk to their doctors about what these findings mean for them individually,” Dr. Hadley said. It’s especially important for people already taking aspirin who are over 70. For people 60 to 69 with the same risk level, the guidelines say it should be an individual decision whether to take aspirin.

Source: New York Times September 16, 2018 14:00 UTC