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Aspirin Use In Heart Patients Increases But Still "Suboptimum" - Study

This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet

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Aspirin usage in outpatients with coronary artery disease without contraindications increased from 5% in 1980 to 26.2% in 1996 in a representative sample of U.S. doctors' office visits, according to a study in the March 14 issue of the American Heart Association journal Circulation.

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