Aspirin concern.

HEALTHY people taking aspirin to prevent heart attacks could be doing themselves more harm than good, experts said.

Millions of Britons are believed to take the drug daily in the hope it acts as an insurance against heart trouble. But its routine use for the prevention of vascular problems "cannot be supported", UK professors from the Aspirin for Asymptomatic Atherosclerosis concluded. Prof Peter Weissberg, pictured, of the British Heart Foundation which partfunded the research, said: "The findings of this study agree with our current advice that people who do not have symptomatic or diagnosed artery or heart disease should not take aspirin, because the risks of bleeding may outweigh the benefits."