Aspirin Therapy Has Long Been Known to Be Effective as a Secondary

question 5

Multiple Choice

Aspirin therapy has long been known to be effective as a secondary prevention strategy for clients with heart disease, but which of the following risks associated with aspirin therapy have delayed recommendations of aspirin as a means of primary prevention?

• A) Hypertension
• B) Blood clots
• C) GI bleeding
• D) Constipation

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Definitions:

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a set of data, indicating the spread or dispersion of the data points.

Interquartile Range

A measure of statistical dispersion, representing the difference between the upper (75th percentile) and lower (25th percentile) quartiles in a dataset.

Middle 50%

A statistical term referring to the interquartile range, which is the range between the 25th percentile and the 75th percentile of a data set.