Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan Jul 2 2025 Around 1 in 6 older adults take aspirin as their primary method of preventing cardiovascular disease – despite stricter guidelines that no longer always call for it, a study finds.  Almost one-quarter of those aspirin users started taking the medication without a physician recommendation and 8% had not discussed their use with any health care provider.  The results, published in the  Journal of the American College of Cardiology , come from