Women Who Take Aspirin Live Longer

The Scientific American reports on a new study that indicates that women who take aspirin live longer than women who don’t take aspirin. How much longer?  They won’t say. But the Harvard Med School researchers who did the work are claiming that aspirin
use was associated with a 25-percent reduced risk of mortality
from any cause, compared with never using aspirin regularly. In terms of specific causes of death,Sciam reports that aspirin use was
linked to a 38-percent reduced risk of death from
cardiovascular disease and a 12 percent reduced risk of death
due to cancer. The use of aspirin for 1 to 5 years seemed to
provide protection against cardiovascular disease, whereas at
least 10 years of use was required to prevent malignancy. Read more in the Scientific American.