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Fast fact #25

#25: Research suggests that aspirin protects men against heart attack but not stroke, yet it protects women against stroke but not heart attack.

Sex and gender
Disease

Bibliography

Source: Berger et al. JAMA 2006;295:306-14.
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=202217
Originally published in The Big Picture Little Book of Fast Facts
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