Still, only a minority of heart-attack patients receive aspirin.

Most patients receive aspirin and another medicine called clopidogrel (Plavix) after this procedure.

However, a similar rise in autism occurred in France, where children continued to receive aspirin.

Among those patients who received both streptokinase and aspirin, the risk was cut in half.

Among those who had streptokinase within six hours of the heart attack and who also received aspirin, the death rate fell 50 percent.

The proportion receiving aspirin within the first 24 h may be substantially lower.

Japanese doctors have reported Reye's syndrome during outbreaks of influenza among children who did not receive aspirin.

Among those who received aspirin, there were five fatal heart attacks and 99 nonfatal attacks.

Indeed, the study showed that there was a small, though not statistically significant, excess of death from strokes among those who had received aspirin.

You may also receive aspirin or another antiplatelet medicine.