Aspirin cuts risk of staph infection in dialysis patients

Published Saturday, 31 March 2007 3:42PM CST by in ESRD

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AspirinDialysis patients who take aspirin have a 54 percent lower risk of Staph infection according to a recent study that examined more than 4,700 blood cultures from 872 dialysis patients. The optimal dose, according to the study run by Dr. Martin Sedlacek from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, is 325 mg daily.

Unfortunately, aspirin was found to have no effect on infections caused by other microbes.

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