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, suggests that regular aspirin use may reduce the risk of colorectal cancer, especially in individuals with unhealthy lifestyles.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force previously recommended daily low-dose aspirin to prevent cardiovascular events and colorectal cancer in all adults ages 50 to 59 . In 2016, they withdrew the recommendation in part due to concerns about aspirin increasing the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding.For the study, researchers analyzed the health data from 107,655 participants from the Nurses’ Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-Up Study.
One outcome of the study could be that “healthcare providers might more strongly consider recommending aspirin to patients who have less healthy lifestyles,” said co-senior author Long H. Nguyen, MD, MS, a physician investigator in the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit and Division of Gastroenterology at MGH and a Chen Institute Department of Medicine Transformative Scholar at MGH.
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