Aspirin lowers risk of asthma
A US study on the role of aspirin in preventing heart disease has also found the drug reduces the risk of developing asthma.
The study of more than 22,000 healthy male doctors, published in the ‘American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care’, found those taking the medication every other day lowered their risk of developing the condition by 22%.
But the results did not find that aspirin improved symptoms in patients who had already been diagnosed with the respiratory condition.
Researchers at the Division of Ageing at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts studied records of patients aged 40 to 84 over five years. Among 11,037 people who took aspirin, 113 new cases of asthma were diagnosed, compared with 145 from the placebo group.
