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Guideline Recommendations for Anticoagulation in Atrial Fibrillation The ACCP guidelines recommend use of aspirin 325 mg for patients with AF who are considered to have a low stroke risk.

Practical Prescribing is a series produced in conjunction with the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin to highlight important issues for prescribers to consider and prompts for shared decision making ...

A study to find the right dose of aspirin to reduce the risk of cancer in some patients has found the smallest amount works just as well as larger ones, according to a leading researcher. The ...

Taking a single, small dose of aspirin a day can prevent bowel cancer in people at high risk of the disease, according to the results of a major clinical trial. The Colorectal Adenoma/Carcinoma ...

Continuation versus discontinuation of aspirin-based antiplatelet therapy for perioperative bleeding and ischaemic events in adults undergoing neurosurgery: protocol for a systematic review and ...

Among patients taking aspirin, the use of 12 weeks of famotidine 20 mg twice daily is beneficial. This therapy reduced the incidence of peptic ulcer or esophagitis during follow-up endoscopy.

Aspirin prodrugs formed by derivatization at the benzoic acid group are very difficult to obtain because the promoiety accelerates the rate of hydrolysis by plasma esterases at the neighboring acetyl ...