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Aspirin is a blood thinner. Depending on your health condition, that can be beneficial or dangerous. Here's what medical experts recommend.

When it comes to aspirin’s side effects, 1.1 per cent of the participants who took it experienced bleeding inside or around their brain, compared with only 0.8 per cent of those taking a placebo.

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Aspirin and diclofenac were the most common individual drugs with allergy labels, the researchers said. Overall, 18 patients (1.8%) in the stroke cohort had an NSAID allergy label .