Aspirin and heart-attacks

I asked the doctor to add aspirin to my prescription, he needed to be argued around but my facts were clear so he did eventually. He's put me on 75mg/day (baby sized), these are soluble so I just add one to my porridge in the morning while it's cooking.

The main fact that made me decide to start on aspirin is the possibility of dying of a heart attack before I'm 50. Based on a study in 2002, if diabetic men die between 40 to 50 years old there's a breath-taking 75% chance of this being due to a heart attack. I haven't found a recent study on aspirin specifically for diabetics, but for the general population in the long term aspirin reduces the risk of a heart attack by 32% while increasing the overall risk of stroke by 13% percent.

See BBC article on aspirin.