An Aspirin a Day Keeps a Heart Attack at Bay

Researchers calculated the ideal age for taking the tablet to improve circulation and help people to live longer.

GPs are now being urged to hand out the wonderdrug to all healthy men over 48 and women over 57, as patients in these age groups have a 10 per cent risk in the next decade of  cardiovascular disease – the furring of arteries and veins. It is the main cause of heart disease, heart attacks and strokes – and leads to 208,000 deaths every year in the UK.