Lipids are strong predictors of heart disease; CRP is a strong predictor of heart disease, and these predictors are independent of one another,
But there's still almost 30 percent of patients in a recent survey that weren't getting aspirin during an acute heart attack.
Those having a heart attack will have a far lower risk of having a second heart attack, a stroke, or their death rate is lowered almost a quarter. Aspirin has the best benefit to risk ratio and benefit to cost ratio of any therapy of acute heart attacks.