Heart Attack Caused By A Small Dose Of This Common Pain Killer

Most of us intuitively believe that medicines are divided into two categories:

1) prescription, meaning that they cause side effects and are potentially harmful
2) and over-the-counter, meaning that they’re pretty side-effect free and safe

But a study by Canadian and European researchers now shows that a tiny dose of a specific, over-the-counter painkiller can cause a sudden and immediate heart attack.

NSAIDs include drugs like ibuprofen, celecoxib, diclofenac, naproxen and rofecoxib.

In the study, published in April 2017, in the online journal BMJ, researchers were particularly interested in the short-term on-and-off use of NSAIDs, as this is how most people use them in real life.

They collected information about the heart attacks and drug use of 446,763 people from Canadian and European drug prescription or medical databases.

In all the data, they found 61,460 people who had heart attacks, whom they then compared with those that did not.

When they calculated all doses and prescription durations together, they found that the risk of a heart attack increased by 24% for celecoxib takers, 48% for ibuprofen takers, 50% for diclofenac takers, 53% for naproxen takers and 58% for rofecoxib takers.

The risk of a heart attack immediately increased even for people who used it only for one day.

The greatest rise in risk was, however, recorded for people using it daily for 1 to 4 weeks. Longer time didn’t seem to add to the risk any further.

Unsurprisingly, those who took higher doses had a worse risk.

Those who took more than 200 mg of celecoxib, more than 100 mg of diclofenac, more than 1,200 mg of ibuprofen or more than 750 mg of naproxen daily for between 1 and 4 weeks increased their risk three to fourfold.

And whether or not you use painkillers, you need to learn about the one ingredient responsible for ALL plaque buildup in your arteries (and how cutting it out prevents heart attack) …