Should
I be taking a low-dose of aspirin every day to help prevent heart attacks?
This website is designed
to help patients and providers determine if daily low-dose aspirin therapy
may be beneficial in preventing coronary heart disease (CHD). The recommendations
are based on the United States Preventative Services Task Force report
on aspirin (available here).
In order to begin assessing
the risk:benefit ratio of aspirin therapy we must start by determining
your 10 year risk of CHD. This calculation is based on data from the
Framingham
study. In order to complete this form you will need your age, lipid
information, blood pressure and diabetes/smoking status. Please input
these data below and click 'Submit' to continue.
Please note that at present
this tool is only valid for males. Support for females will be added shortly!