Bega GP champions ASPREE

Aug 30, 2013

The trial to answer important aspirin question

 

 

Sapphire Coast GP, Dr Duncan Mackinnon, told a journalist in an interview for the Bega District News, that ASPREE would give GPs answers to questions about daily low-dose aspirin in healthy older adults.

A man dressed in white, with a stethoscope around his neck, stands in front of shelves of medicines, holding a packet of aspirin
Above: Dr Duncan Mackinnon, a GP in Bega, is one of more than 2,000 GP associate investigators to the ASPREE trial.

“It (ASPREE) will answer if aspirin is good to take, or not good to take – whether it’s protective or not,” he said.

 

Dr Mackinnon is one of more than 2000 registered GP associate investigators to ASPREE, the largest clinical trial ever conducted in general practice in Australia.

 

Read the full article ‘An aspirin a day for the elderly’ as published in the Bega District News on August 30th, 2013.

 

We would like thank Bega District News for permission to reproduce the article and photograph on our website.

 

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