ASPIRIN may help prevent miscarriages. Lesley Regan and her colleagues at the
Imperial College School of Medicine in London followed the pregnancies of women
who had previously had unexplained miscarriages after 13 weeks or more. Of those
who took 75 milligrams of aspirin a day, 65 per cent had a successful pregnancy,
compared with only 49 per cent of those who didn’t take the drug (Human
Reproduction, vol 15, p 2220). Aspirin may prevent blood clots forming in
the placenta, Regan thinks.
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