Even Short-Term NSAID Use Risky in Heart patients
Megan Brooks writing in Medscape Medical News reported “In patients with prior heart attack, most non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), even when taken for as little as one week, are associated with an increased risk for death and recurrent MI, new observational data indicate. Use of NSAIDs was associated with a 45 percent increased risk for death or recurrent heart attack in the first seven days of treatment and a 55 percent increased risk if treatment continued to three months. The findings were published in Circulation. “We found that short-term treatment with most NSAIDs was associated with increased and instantaneous cardiovascular risk,” stated first author Anne-Marie Schjerning Olsen, MB, from Copenhagen University in Hellerup, Denmark.
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