Population cessation of aspirin use for the prevention of cardiovascular disease.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Aspirin use for primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is widespread with over a third of the adult population using despite guidelines recommending against.

Objective

This population-based research documents rates of use and reasons for cessation from 2015 to 2020, a period when guidelines changed.

Design

Three cross-sectional telephone surveys were conducted during 2015, 2017, and 2019-20.

Setting

A population-based survey in the states of Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

Participants

The surveys included non-institutionalized resident adults ages 55-79 for women and 45-79 for men with landline telephones.

Main outcomes and measures

The analysis included 8,197 participants, 4,161 women and 4,036

SUBMITTER: Roeser S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11914759 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature