“They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart,” US president Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published on New Year’s Day. “I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?”
Perhaps, unsurprisingly where Trump is concerned, it doesn’t make sense.
He proudly proclaimed that he takes a higher dose of daily aspirin than his doctors recommend and has been doing so for 25 years.
The president takes 325 milligrammes of daily aspirin – four times higher than the recommended 81 milligramme low-dose as
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