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To: LLCF who wrote (62187)	1/26/2001 5:29:44 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Don't get your feelings all hurt, now. Lookit, here is how it works. Your profile says you are 43, so let's assume you have a bad knee from playing football or basketball. Blew out the cartilage. And let's assume we have 2,000 43 year old men who blew out their knees and have bad cartilage. Now let's assume that 1,000 take aspirin or ibuprofen or another NSAID, and 1,000 don't - they just tough it out. Of the 1,000 who take NSAIDs, a small percentage will get duodenal ulcers and gastric perforations, but the amount will be statistically significantly more than the control population. Doesn't matter whether it's 80 year old women with arthritis or 43 year old men with bad knees or healthy guys who take an aspirin a day to ward off heart attacks. All the way down the line, the statistics work the same way. Similarly situated people with similar health conditions are more likely to have duodenal ulcers and gastric perforations if they take NSAIDs than people who don't take NSAIDs. And the only point I was trying to make is that the ordinary person pops aspirin and ibuprofen and so on and so forth without giving it a thought - so why would the ordinary US citizen worry about eating beef which has never caused Mad Cow Disease in the US? And, by the way, GFY. -g-