Aspirin Use Among Adults With Diabetes

Abstract
The risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is very high among adults with diabetes mellitus.1-5 Adults with diabetes but no clinical CVD may have risk of CVD events similar to that of nondiabetic adults with established CVD.2,5,6 Although there has been a decline in CVD mortality in recent decades, adults with diabetes have not seen the same improvements as those without this disease, and CVD mortality among women with diabetes actually increased during a time when it fell among nondiabetic women.7