Aspirin therapy is an effective tool to decrease the
risk of stroke and heart attack. But it may increase the risk of developing
macular degeneration, the most common cause of blindness in adults older than
55, according to an Australian study.
The findings have been published in JAMA Internal
Medicine, formerly the Archives of Internal Medicine. Researchers from the
University of Sydney did not find that aspirin "causes" the
condition, but noted an association between regularly taking aspirin and the
more severe form of the vision-robbing disease, "wet" age-related
macular degeneration. That association held true even when they controlled for
smoking and other heart disease risks. They also found that risk rose the more
aspirin a person took regularly.
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