A Scottish study says that aspirin doesn’t prove helpful to prevent heart attack and strokes in diabetics.

A report in the British Medical Journal says that the drug showed no benefit in those 1,300 adults who didn’t have any symptoms of heart disease.  It is worth mentioning that aspirin can cause stomach bleeds in some people.

The results are absolutely contrary to those many guidelines which support the view that diabetics should use aspirin to battle with the high risk of stroke and heart attack.

According to some experts, people who have been diagnosed with some heart disease aspirin seems to reduce almost 25% risk of recurring of the events like heart attack or stroke.

In the UK, there are almost more than 40million people with diabetes and around 80% diabetics die of heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases.

Many UK guidelines suggest a daily dose of aspirin to prevent heart problems in diabetics.

However, the current study says that adults (over 40) with type 1 or type 2 diabetes and without any symptoms of heart disease were found without any difference over seven years when they were given aspirin or a dummy pill.

Professor Jill Belch, who led the study, says that aspirin is considered the commonest cause of hospital admission because of stomach bleeding.