If you take aspirin for heart health, don't take enteric aspirin.
A new study by Duke University found that aspirin coated with a material designed to avoid irritation in the stomach lining (enteric aspirin) did not reduce clotting at all.
Modified-release type aspirin did the best job of protecting patients from clotting. Normal aspirin also did well. But the effects of enteric aspirin were undetectable.
Rick Good spent ten years in the newspaper business, including with The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) and The Greenville News (Greenville, SC). He co-wrote, with Melinda Coleman, Rutledge to Riley: Governors of South Carolina, 1776–Present (Published by The Greenville News), and is the author of Mind Games Trivia #1 (Amazon). He has recently spent 15 years creating original trivia content through Sounds Good Mobile Entertainment and continues that with his new company, SGME Software. He edits The Smart Reader’s money, real estate, and business coverage.
