YALE UNIVERSITY: Study shows aspirin as effective as an anti-clotting drug in reducing post-heart attack risk.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-10 November 1999-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale study shows aspirin as effective as anti-clotting drug in reducing post-heart attack risk (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:101199 New Haven, Conn. -- Heart attack sufferers can benefit as much from taking one aspirin a day after their trauma as from taking aspirin along with a powerful anti-clotting drug, a Yale study shows.

The study, one of the largest of its kind, appears to settle the controversy over the best long-term treatment for heart attack sufferers - aspirin or the anti-clotting drug, Coumadin. The study recommends aspirin alone; it is cheaper and, unlike Coumadin, does not require monitoring to regulate the dosage. The six-year randomized study included 5,059 subjects, all of them U.S....