Conclusions
To the best of our knowledge, the ASSOS study cohort represents the
largest number of patients treated with aspirin in Turkey. The present
study provides contemporary data on aspirin use both in primary
prevention and secondary prevention group patients. The results of our
study suggest that the overuse of aspirin is common because of
physicians’ poor compliance with the guideline recommendations in
patients without documented CVD. Female patients who were on oral
anticoagulants and had heart failure were at the highest risk for
inappropriate use of aspirin however, older age, smoking, hypertension,
diabetes mellitus were associated with appropriate use of aspirin. Thus,
a greater emphasis should be given to these patients’ characteristics.