Originally published in the Fall 2015 issue of Robb Report Health & Wellness as “Intelligent Questions to Ask Your Doctor Fall 2015”

1.  Aspirin is regularly prescribed to prevent heart attacks in men. 

Q: Does it also have beneficial health effects for disease prevention in women?

A: We have guidelines for only primary prevention in women and men, so let me be clear on heart disease and aspirin. What we do know today is that if women have known heart disease and diabetes—if yo…