Deans' stroke musings: Aspirin taken to thin the blood to prevent strokes 'can double risk of suffering a heart attack'

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Aspirin taken to thin the blood to prevent strokes 'can double risk of suffering a heart attack'

Danger, danger Will Robinson. Ask your doctor what to do. I've been told I don't have afib, but that was after listening to my heart for 30 seconds.

How do they test for atrial fibrillation?

Your doctor may order several tests to diagnose your condition, including:

Electrocardiogram (ECG). ...
Holter monitor. ...
Event recorder. ...
Echocardiogram. ...
Blood tests. ...
Stress test. ...
Chest X-ray.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4337050/Aspirin-double-risk-suffering-heart-attack.html

Study of 30,000 NHS patients with atrial fibrillation found they were at higher risk if they took aspirin
Patients were 1.9 times as likely to have an acute heart attack, it found
Research carried out by Southampton University and Maastricht University

By Ben Spencer Medical Correspondent For The Daily Mail

Published: 00:00 EDT, 22 March 2017 | Updated: 00:00 EDT, 22 March 2017

Aspirin taken by thousands of people to thin the blood and ward off strokes could double the risk of heart attacks, experts have warned.

A study of 30,000 NHS patients found those with atrial fibrillation - a heart condition that causes an irregular and often abnormally fast heart rate - were at higher risk if they took aspirin than other drugs.

Researchers from Southampton University and Maastricht University in the Netherlands examined health records of people who were prescribed warfarin, aspirin or a new generation of pills to prevent stroke.

They found patients who took aspirin were 1.9 times as likely to suffer an acute heart attack as those who took warfarin, one of a class of drugs called vitamin K antagonists.

Study leader Dr Leo Stolk, from Maastricht, said: ‘Oral anticoagulant treatment with vitamin K antagonists has been the cornerstone for the prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation for decades.

‘We identified an ... increased risk of [heart attacks] among current and past aspirin users in comparison with VKAs.

‘There also exists doubt about the usefulness of aspirin in atrial fibrillation. In new guidelines aspirin is no longer included.’

The paper, published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, found a new class of drugs called direct oral anticoagulants - or DOACs - were also linked to a doubling in heart attack risk.

The study looked at prescription history and heart problems among NHS patients - 15,400 who were users of aspirin, 13,098 of VKAs, 1,266 of DOACs or 382 who took a mixture.