{"id":5675,"date":"2013-08-30T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/?p=5675"},"modified":"2021-08-23T03:19:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T03:19:07","slug":"bega-gp-champions-aspree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/bega-gp-champions-aspree\/","title":{"rendered":"Bega GP champions ASPREE"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The trial to answer important aspirin question<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Sapphire Coast\u00a0GP, 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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"301\" height=\"400\" class=\"wp-image-5676\" src=\"https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Dr-MacKinnon-supports-ASPREE.jpg\" alt=\"A man dressed in white, with a stethoscope around his neck, stands in front of shelves of medicines, holding a packet of aspirin\" \/>\r\n<figcaption><em>Above: Dr Duncan Mackinnon, a GP in Bega, is one of more than 2,000 GP associate investigators to the ASPREE trial<\/em>.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;It (ASPREE) will answer if aspirin is good to take, or not good to take &#8211; whether it&#8217;s protective or not,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Dr Mackinnon is one of more than 2000 registered <a href=\"\/aus\/about-us\/\">GP associate investigator<\/a>s to ASPREE, the largest clinical trial ever conducted in general practice in Australia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Bega-District-News-1-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;An aspirin a day for the elderly&#8217;<\/a> as published in the Bega District News on August 30th, 2013.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>We would like thank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.begadistrictnews.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bega District News<\/a> for permission to reproduce the article and photograph on our website.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GP associate Investigator to the ASPREE trial, Dr Duncan MacKinnon, spoke to the local Bega District News about the research. Read the article here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1200","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[53,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5675"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8505,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions\/8505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}