Doctors advised against aspirin for patients with irregular heart rhythm

Experts at Nice say using anticoagulants, not antiplatelets like aspirin, could avert 7,000 strokes and 2,000 deaths a year Aspirin should no longer be used to try to prevent strokes in people with a common heart rhythm disorder as it is ineffective and has acted as a "smokescreen", preventing people from getting the right treatment, government experts say. The advice, published on Wednesday, affects 100,000 people with atrial fibrillation, which causes the heart to beat irregularly and sometime...