| ||What Your Doctor Is Reading || | Update From the Medical
Journals: May 2011 May 31, 2011 By Mary Pickett, M.D. Harvard
Medical School What's the latest news in the medical journals
this month? Find out what your doctor is reading. NSAID Pain
Drugs are Hazardous if You Have Heart Disease Nonsteroidal anti-
inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen have risks. But
they can be especially dangerous for people with coronary artery
disease, a prior heart attack or heart failure. A new study from
Denmark found that deaths and heart attacks are more frequent
among heart attack survivors or those with heart disease who
used NSAID drugs, compared with people who did not use them. The
study did not include aspirin, which is categorized as an NSAID.
(Aspirin provides a clot-prevention benefit that makes it quite
different from other NSAID medicines.) The study was published
online May 9 by Circulation: Journal of the American Heart
Association. Researchers reviewed data collected from all Danish
residents. They i