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Re:Aspirin Really Is Kind of a Wonder Drug, Studies Continue... by aantix on Monday April 30, 2012 @02:17PM (#3910527)
See my numbers cited above. 1 incident of GI bleeding per year out of 833 people taking a once daily, low-dose aspirin. I find those numbers acceptable and will continue to take aspirin. If there are any other medications involved, this further complicates the risk numbers and must be considered. You may not find them acceptable.
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Re:Aspirin Really Is Kind of a Wonder Drug, Studies Continue... by astrofinch on Monday April 30, 2012 @08:53PM (#3912416)
Isn't G.I. bleeding grounds for a trip to the emergency room?

This seems like a bigger risk than dying in a car accident by a decently large margin.

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Re:Aspirin Really Is Kind of a Wonder Drug, Studies Continue... by kijiki on Monday April 30, 2012 @11:18PM (#3912842)
1/833 of having the bleeding, _not_ fatal bleeding. Compared to 1/83 lifetime risk of dying in a car accident. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/how-scared-should-w...

People (all of us, I'm not picking on you) are terrible at relative risks.

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Re:Aspirin Really Is Kind of a Wonder Drug, Studies Continue... by gwillen on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @03:55AM (#3913411)
Er, that 1/833 is not a lifetime risk though, it's a yearly risk. So more like 1/10 lifetime risk of a GI bleed. Which is not great, but it depends on how often they're fatal I guess.
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