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The abstract also says that " Furthermore the mortality statistics do not include deaths ascribed to the use of over-the-counter NSAIDS."

Aspirin is an OTC and thus excluded from those mortality statistics.

Additionally most of those deaths were from elderly people who suffer from arthritis and are taking NSAIDs daily and longterm.

Overall that is a very misleading headline.



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