Question

Why is Aspirin used in the prevention of heart-attacks?

Answer 1

Aspirin is an organic compound consisting of the following structure.

To relieve pain we should use 300 mg of aspirin but the usual dose of aspirin to prevent heart attack is 75 mg for one day.

Complete step by step answer:
- Acetyl salicylic acid is the chemical name of aspirin.
- Generally the heart attack comes due to the clotting of the blood in the vessels which supply the blood to the heart.
- Therefore the blood clot blocks the artery and prevents the blood flow to the heart and causes heart attack.
- Aspirin has property to reduces the formation of the clots in arteries and then to prevent the heart attack.
- Very low doses of aspirin is suggested to prevent heart attack problems.
- A general dose of 75 -100 mg of aspirin is suggestible to prevent heart attack.
- Medications in low doses of aspirin are called antiplatelets because they reduce the accumulation of platelets.

Addition information:
- Aspirin is a white color solid in nature.
- The molecular formula of aspirin is ${{C}_{9}}{{H}_{8}}{{O}_{4}}$ .
- The IUPAC name of aspirin is 2-Acetoxybenzoic acid.
- Aspirin is slightly soluble in water.

Note: General purpose of usage of aspirin is a pain killer (reduces the pain) and reduces the fever in high doses (300 mg) but in low doses (70 - 75 mg) used as a medication to prevent the heart attack. High consumption of aspirin causes risk of formation of stomach ulcers.