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The Evolution of ASA

Picture the old time GP groggily answering the phone at midnight. He listens intently, and finally says, “take two aspirin and call my office in the morning if you’re not feeling better.” Back then in its infancy, aspirin or ASA, was a multipurpose miracle drug.

As time went on it was discovered that aspirin had blood thinning properties because of its effect on platelets. Over the years a myriad of cardiac patients were placed on aspirin either secondarily after a cardiac event or primarily as prophylaxis in individuals with multiple risk factors for heart disease. Aspirin had evolved into a major player on the every day medical stage.

However popular ASA had become in the realm of cardiac disease, the latest use of aspirin is likely to win aspirin at least an Oscar nomination.

From BlazeNews:

New research from George Washington University has determined that treating COVID patients with aspirin reduced the risk of severe illness by nearly half.

The report noted that an aspirin regimen in more than 400 COVID-19 patients in hospitals across the United States cut the need for ventilation by 44%, slashed ICU admission by 43%, and reduced overall in-hospital mortality rates by 47%.

This isn’t the only study professing the possible benefits of aspirin in COVID patients. Earlier in October, Medical Express reported that researchers from the University of Minnesota and Basel University in Switzerland came to the same conclusion.

The researchers’ findings were published in Lancet’s Open Access eClinical Medicine and revealed that patients on blood thinners before getting COVID were admitted less often to the hospital despite being older and having more chronic medical conditions than their peers. The findings also revealed that blood thinners — whether started before or after COVID-19 infection — reduced death by nearly half.

The implication from these studies is that in the Covid pandemic setting, a multitude of lives could potentially be saved with more widespread use of aspirin.

10/15/21

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