4th year medical student who has spent the past 2 years in research. I read the source material for that cnn article. The only thing that study can tell you is that people who get an MI are more likely to be on NSAIDs. This makes sense considering mostly older people get heart attacks and old people also tend to have arthritis. You cannot draw a causal relationship from the source paper.
In addition, I caution all of you from listening to medical conclusions reported via mainstream media. They have a tendency of getting things very wrong. If you see something alarming, find the source material, print it, and bring it to your doctor to have it read. Scientists are just as guilty as mainstream media when it comes to bending reality for viewership.
In addition, I caution all of you from listening to medical conclusions reported via mainstream media. They have a tendency of getting things very wrong. If you see something alarming, find the source material, print it, and bring it to your doctor to have it read. Scientists are just as guilty as mainstream media when it comes to bending reality for viewership.