Most things that come up in google concern themselves with high cholesterol. Does it make sense to take a daily aspirin to mitigate cardiovascular risk if one has LOW cholesterol - low as in 158? I am asking because a cardiologist has me taking a low 81 mg every day and I’m wondering if he’s just approaching me with a standard cookie cutter approach without regard to my actual cholesterol reading. I have been diagnosed with a wandering atrial pacemaker and multifocal atrial tachycardia. I am 63.
I don’t think aspirin affects cholesterol. It makes the blood thinner.
I know that atrial fibrillation can increase the risk of stroke, and while that isn’t what you have, what you do have is like a less extreme version, so he may be acting on precaution, especially if it turned into fibrillation; like **bup **said, aspirin “thins” the blood and reduces the chances of blood clots.
Michael - ah, that makes sense. I ask, however, because a stroke took my father down at 53 but it was in the sixties when I was very young, so I don’t know if it was a hemorrhage or a clot. But I did read about the atrial fib causing clots.