Article: Stopping aspirin therapy can raise heart-attack risk.

Byline: Carolyn Poirot

An aspirin a day may help keep heart disease at bay, but suddenly withdrawing that aspirin may cause severe chest pain or even a heart attack, according to a recent study.

Researchers found that 51 of 1,236 patients hospitalized with heart disease experienced acute coronary events, including unstable angina, stent thrombosis and heart attacks, less than one week after they quit taking aspirin.

The patients had all been prescribed aspirin to help treat heart disease at least three months before they were hospitalized.

Aspirin therapy is standard for patients with coronary artery disease because it thins the blood ...

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