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One of the earliest (of many) bizarre symptoms of COVID-19 was blood clotting in the lungs. These clots could easily be seen when an endotracheal tube was removed from a ventilated patient.
One of the many difficulties in treating cardiovascular disease is patient compliance with medication regimens.
If you already have a headache and navigate your way to the pain relief shelf at your pharmacy the headache is likely to get worse. That's because there are a bazillion names on the bottles. Very complicated.
Aspirin, aka acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), was "born" in Germany in 1899. Now, 119 years later, it may not have died in Germany, but it got smacked around pretty badly at the 2018 European Society of Cardiology in Munich (1).
Has an aspirin replaced the apple? Is it true that an aspirin a day keeps the doctor away? The short answer is perhaps; the long answer is complicated.
“An aspirin a day keeps the doctor away” has been the mantra for prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) since the early 2000s, but that seems to be changing in some cases.