and as soon as that's said, they tell you how dangerous these NSAIDs are ("women who took NSAIDs increased their chances of having a miscarriage by 80 percent"):
http://medserv.no/modules.php?name=mdnews&file=article&sid=2437&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
you never can win :(
ariela
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> Anti-Inflammatories Ward Off Parkinson's -Study
> Mon August 18, 2003 06:21 PM ET
>
> CHICAGO (Reuters) - Regular use of anti-inflammatory drugs appears to lower the risk of developing Parkinson's disease,
> perhaps by protecting brain cells that would otherwise die, researchers said on Monday.
>
> The risk of Parkinson's was reduced by about 45 percent among adults who regularly took drugs known as nonsteroidal
> anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) compared to non-users, the Harvard School of Public Health study said.
>
> These drugs include ibuprofen, indomethacin and naproxen -- which can carry their own risks from long-term use such as
> liver damage. Those who took two or more aspirin daily also got the protective effect from Parkinson's, which afflicts
> an estimated 1.5 million Americans, mostly older than 50.
>
> "The results of postmortem studies suggest that inflammation is involved in the development of Parkinson's disease and
> there is experimental evidence that NSAIDs are protective for the cells that are selectively destroyed," said study
> author Dr. Honglei Chen of Harvard.
>
> It was not known if taking NSAIDs can benefit people who already have Parkinson's, but the drugs have previously been
> found to have a protective benefit against Alzheimer's disease, Chen said. The causes of the two neurological diseases,
> which commonly strike the elderly, are unknown.
>
> The study, which was published in The Archives of Neurology journal, employed data from two studies involving health
> workers -- a 14-year study of 44,000 men ending in 1990, and an 18-year nurses study with 98,000 women ending in 1998.
>
> Six percent of the men and 4 percent of the women regularly used NSAIDs. A total of 415 cases of Parkinson's disease
> were diagnosed.
>
> In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Mya Schiess of the University of Texas suggested that refinements in the study's
> findings may lead to possible treatments of Parkinson's.
>
> Another report in the same journal projected that the number of Americans afflicted with Alzheimer's disease will
> triple to 13.2 million by the year 2050 from 4.5 million in 2000, based on an analysis of census data and disease
> patterns.
>
> The expanding population of those older than 85 are particularly at risk for the mind-robbing disease.
>
> "These estimates ... assume that the age-, race-, and education-specific risk of the disease will remain constant over
> the next 50 years. The large public health challenge is to make these projections obsolete and irrelevant by
> discovering routes to the prevention of the illness," wrote study author Denis Evans of Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's
> Medical Center in Chicago.
>
> SOURCE: Reuters
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