PubMed)—Compared w/ nonusers, older adults who used aspirin ≥3x/wk had lower rates of mortality related to all causes (hazard ratio [HR], 0.81), any cancer (HR, 0.85), GI cancer (HR, 0.75), and colorectal cancer (HR, 0.71), in a cohort study involving >146,000 individuals from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial. Use of aspirin as little as 1-3x/mo was associated w/ lower all-cause mortality (HR, 0.84) and cancer mortality (HR, 0.87).
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