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Aspirin use associated with
development of AMD
Created: Jan 11th, 2012
According to a recent European study, people over the age of 65 who take aspirin daily may double their risk of developing the “wet” form of age-related macular degeneration.
Many doctors advise their elderly patients to take aspirin daily to relieve pain or inflammation or to reduce the risk of blood clots. This is particularly frequent in people with heart disease.
For now, researchers are not recommending that doctors stop treating their patients with daily aspirin. “If future studies support our results, then recommendations on aspirin may need to be modified for patients with age-related macular degeneration,” said lead researcher, Paulus de Jong, of the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and Academic Medicine. “It's possible that increased AMD risk may outweigh aspirin's potential protective benefits for some patients, but we need to know more about the impacts of dose, length of use, and other factors before we can say for certain, or make specific recommendations.”
Source: Info Clip
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