Aspirin may be OK after stroke
From Times wire reports
Aspirin does not appear to raise the risk that someone who has had one hemorrhagic stroke will have another.
Aspirin can cause bleeding, and some doctors had worried it may raise the risk of a bleeding, or hemorrhagic, stroke. But a new study of 207 survivors of intracerebral hemorrhage -- a bleeding stroke -- showed those who were taking aspirin were not more likely to have a second bleeding stroke.
The aspirin is prescribed to protect patients from the more common form of stroke, an ischemic stroke caused by a blockage.
More than 700,000 people in the United States have strokes every year. Warning signs include sudden numbness or weakness of a limb.
The study was published in the Jan. 24 issue of the journal Neurology.
