But there's still almost 30 percent of patients in a recent survey that weren't getting aspirin during an acute heart attack.

Basic research has shown that in the arteries in the heart, that inflammatory processes that are reflected by higher levels of CRP may play a role in the development of hardening of the arteries or atherosclerosis.

Basic research has shown that in the arteries in the heart, that inflammatory processes that are reflected by higher levels of CRP may play a role in the development of hardening of the arteries or atherosclerosis,

Lipids are strong predictors of heart disease; CRP is a strong predictor of heart disease, and these predictors are independent of one another,

Those having a heart attack will have a far lower risk of having a second heart attack, a stroke, or their death rate is lowered almost a quarter. Aspirin has the best benefit to risk ratio and benefit to cost ratio of any therapy of acute heart attacks.

My colleagues and I were quite surprised that the FDA has taken such an extreme position.