Aspirin and being pregnant
From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I’m Ira Dreyfuss with HHS HealthBeat.
A study indicates a low-dose aspirin a day might not help women who had a pregnancy loss keep this from happening again. Researchers tested the aspirin treatment on about 1,000 women – of whom half of whom got aspirin and half got a placebo.
Doctors have prescribed aspirin for these women, but researcher Enrique Schisterman of the National Institutes of Health says it didn’t make a difference in the overall group:
“Aspirin had no effect whatsoever on reducing the rate of pregnancy losses.”
Aspirin did seem to help one group of women – those who had a pregnancy loss in the past four and a half months. The researchers say these women were more likely to give birth.
The study is in the journal The Lancet.
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