It seems that aspirin can save healthy women's lives by preventing strokes but not heart attacks in middle-age women and that it can prevent both in women 65 and older.

The Women's Health Study involving nearly 40,000 healthy nurses was the first major long-term study to test the preventive benefits of aspirin in females. The results counter what studies have found in men, who can dramatically cut their risk of dying of heart attacks, but not stroke, when taking aspirin.

Previous studies of low-dose aspirin in both men and women show that heart patients who regularly take low-dose aspirin, usually less than 100 milligrams, are less likely to die of heart disease or have a second heart attack. Anyone who takes an aspirin during a heart attack is more likely to survive and less likely to have a second attack later on.

After a decade, women who used aspirin had a 17% lower risk of stroke, driven by a 24% reduction in the most common form of stroke caused by blood clots, the study also found. Women aged 65 and older were 30% less likely to have a stroke caused by a blood clot and 34% less likely to suffer a heart attack.

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