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kijiki
on May 1, 2012
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Aspirin Really Is Kind of a Wonder Drug, Studies C...
1/833 of having the bleeding, _not_ fatal bleeding. Compared to 1/83 lifetime risk of dying in a car accident.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/how-scared-should-w...
People (all of us, I'm not picking on you) are terrible at relative risks.
gwillen
on May 1, 2012
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Er, that 1/833 is not a lifetime risk though, it's a yearly risk. So more like 1/10 lifetime risk of a GI bleed. Which is not great, but it depends on how often they're fatal I guess.
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People (all of us, I'm not picking on you) are terrible at relative risks.