Therapy

Why?

• It reduces death, strokes and myocardial infarctions. ^a
• Patients who continue to take aspirin have benefit for up to 3 years ^a
• 75 to 325 mg of aspirin daily is as effective as higher doses. ^a

Aspirin reduces death, strokes and MI in unstable angina

Patient	Treatment	Comparison	Outcome	CER	ARR (95% CI)	NNT (95% CI)
unstable angina a	aspirin	control	death, strokes or MI at 12 months	14%	4.92% (2.95% to 6.89%)	20 (15 to 34)