Stroke: aspirin good for some
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Large doses of ordinary aspirin are as effective as the anticoagulant drug warfarin in preventing stroke in people with partial blockages of the brain arteries, a new trial shows. Intracranial stenosis, as this artery-blocking condition is formally known, causes about 10 percent of strokes. Neurologists have long tried to prevent those strokes by giving patients warfarin. However, "aspirin should [now] be used in preference to warfarin for people with intracranial arterial stenosis," concludes ... (more)
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