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Are you taking a low dose Aspirin, daily? – Good advice by Dr.Harold Your doctor will recommend you to take a low dose of aspirin after the age of forty. Most people do not take it seriously until they are about 60 years and over. Why does your doctor does want you to take aspirin, daily? The reason is that a low dose of aspirin daily lowers your risk of getting a heart attack or stroke, by thinning your blood. Normally, clotting of blood occurs by clumping of platelets in your blood stream. At times of a bleed from an artery chemicals are produced to make platelets paste to each other and form a bung. Aspirin tend to delay this process. Further, if you happen to get chest pain (angina) whilst driving, you might escape a severe attack by taking one or two aspirins immediately, which may help to dissolve a ...