The study looked at the effects of women and men taking aspirin and found that both had experienced less clotting of platelets.
Women are clearly benefiting from taking aspirin and should continue to take it to improve their cardiovascular health," Dr. Diane M. Becker states in a Johns Hopkins press release. "Aspirin has been proven by all previous studies to lower the risk of stroke and, as our latest findings show, it also reduces platelet aggregation that can lead to potentially fatal clots in blood vessels."
The results are published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"Our results show that aspirin does what it is supposed to do in both men and women," said platelet biologist and study co-author Dr. Nauder Faraday from Johns Hopkins.
