Re: aspirin less effective for women?

MarilynMann wrote:
: A new study shows that aspirin therapy for coronary artery disease is
: four times more likely to be ineffective in women compared to men with
: the same medical history.
:
: Historically, studies have shown that aspirin therapy is less
: effective in women than in men, but it has remained unclear how much
: less effective and whether this affects patient outcomes, said Michael
: Dorsch, clinical pharmacist and adjunct clinical instructor at the
: University of Michigan College of Pharmacy.
:
: Dorsch is the lead author of the paper, "Aspirin Resistance in
: Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease," which is published in
: the Annals of Pharmacotherapy.
:
: Originally, Dorsch and his team set out to determine if patients with
: a history of heart attacks were more apt to be aspirin resistant than
: those with coronary artery disease but no history of heart attack.
: They found that gender and not medical history was a predictor for
: aspirin resistance, Dorsch said. The results surprised him.
:
: "I was surprised by how big of a difference it was for females,"

There is also gender difference in what aspirin prevents in males and
females. In males aspirin prevents heart attacks and in females strokes.
This aspect was not discussed in your posting. In elderly women stroke
prevention is good reason to take aspirin.

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Juhana

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