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Aspirin For Alzheimer's Disease


   Regular use of aspirin seems to reduce the risk of alzheimer's disease [35-36]. The risk is reduced even more if aspirin is taken steadily more than a year [37]. Aspirin also seems to improve thinking in alzheimer patients. One study compared 239 alzheimer patients not taking aspirin with 206 alzheimer patients taking aspirin. The alzheimer patients who took aspirin did better on tests of word recognition. Aspirin-using patients also scored better on the cognitive subscale of the ADAS scale; aspirin-using alzheimer patients had a mean score of 19.7 on the ADAS-cognitive scale and non-aspirin using patients scored 21.3, a significant difference in favor of aspirin users [38].