ArticleCancers2023
Daily Aspirin Reduced the Incidence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Overall Mortality in Patients with Cirrhosis.
Article in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Aspirin in Patients with Viral Hepatitis: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2024Pooled it
- Aspirin reduces short-term mortality risk in critically ill patients with liver cirrhosis: a propensity-score matched retrospective analysis using the MIMIC-IV database.BMC gastroenterology · 2025Article
- Exploring Varied Treatment Strategies for Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD).Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Platelet, Antiplatelet Therapy and Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease: A Narrative Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
backgroundCirrhosis is the primary risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and gastrointestinal bleeding (GI). We aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of daily aspirin on HCC occurrence, overall survival, and GI bleeding in cirrhotic patients.
methodsA total of 35,898 eligible cases were enrolled for analyses from an initial 40,603 cirrhotic patients without tumor history. Patients continuously treated with aspirin for at least 84 days were in the therapy group, whereas those without treatment were controls. A 1:2 propensity score matching by age, sex, comorbidities, drugs, and significant clinical laboratory tests with covariate assessment was used.
resultsMultivariable regression analyses revealed that daily aspirin use was independently associated with a reduced risk of HCC (three-year HR 0.57; 95% CI 0.37-0.87;
conclusionsLong-term aspirin use significantly reduced the incidence of HCC and overall mortality without increasing gastrointestinal bleeding in cirrhotic patients.
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