Aspirin coating may impact drug's effectiveness
Researchers are challenging the common medical belief that some people's genes make them resistant to the heart-protective benefits of aspirin, reporting in a study that the coating on some tablets is the likely cause. In a report involving 400 healthy patients screened for their response to a single dose of either plain aspirin or a coated pill, "We couldn't find any people who were truly resistant," said Garret FitzGerald, head of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and senior author of the report. A daily low-dose aspirin—typically 81 to 162 milligrams—is a mainstay strategy to prevent heart attacks in men and strokes in women. Aspirin is also given to patients suffering heart attacks and prescribed to those whose blocked arteries have been treated with bypass surgery or propped open with a metal device called a stent.
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