Aspirin (USAN), kent as acetylsalicylic acid (/əˌsɛtəlˌsælˈsɪlk/ ə-SET-əl-SAL-i-SIL-ik an aw; abbreviatit ASA), is a salicylate drug, eften uised as an analgesic tae relieve minor aches an pains, as an antipyretic tae reduce fever, an as an anti-inflammatory medication. Aspirin wis first isolatit bi Felix Hoffmann, a chemist wi the German company Bayer in 1897.[1][2]

Aspirin
Clinical data
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MedlinePlusa682878
Pregnancy
category
  • AU: C
  • US: D (Evidence o risk)
Routes o
admeenistration
Maist commonly oral, whiles rectal, lysine acetylsalicylate mey be given IV or IM
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Pharmacokinetic data
BioavailabilityRapidly an completely absorbed
Protein bindin99.6%
MetabolismHepatic
Biological hauf-life300–650 mg dose: 3.1–3.2 h
1 g dose: 5 h
2 g dose: 9 h
ExcretionRenal
Identifiers
Synonyms2-acetyloxybenzoic acid
acetylsalicylate
acetylsalicylic acid
O-acetylsalicylic acid
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ECHA InfoCard100.000.059
Chemical and physical data
FormulaC9H8O4
Molar mass180.157 g/mol
3D model (Jmol)
Density1.40 g/cm3
Meltin pynt136 °C (277 °F)
Bylin pynt140 °C (284 °F) (decomposes)
Solubility in watter3 mg/mL (20 °C)
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Salicylic acid, the main metabolite o aspirin, is an integral pairt o human an ainimal metabolism. While in humans much o it is attributable tae diet, a substantial pairt is synthesized endogenously.[3]

Aspirin forby haes an antiplatelet effect bi inhibitin the production o thromboxane, which unner normal circumstances binds platelet molecules thegither tae create a patch ower damaged walls o bluid vessels. Acause the platelet patch can acome too muckle an block bluid flow an aw, locally an dounstream, aspirin is uised lang-term, at law doses, tae help prevent hert attacks, strokes, an bluid clot formation in fowk at heich risk o developin bluid clots an aw.[4] It haes been established that law doses o aspirin mey be gien immediately efter a hert attack tae reduce the risk o anither hert attack or o the daith o cardiac tissue an aw.[5][6] Aspirin mey be effective at preventin certain types o cancer, parteecularly colorectal cancer.[7][7][8][9]

The main undesirable side effects o aspirin taken bi muith are gastrointestinal ulcers, painch bleedin, an tinnitus, especially in heicher doses. In childer an adolescents, aspirin is na langer indicatit tae control flu-like symptoms or the symptoms o chickenpox or ither viral illnesses, acause o the risk o Reye's syndrome.[10]

Aspirin is pairt o a group o medications cried nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), but differs frae maist ither NSAIDs in the mechanism o action. Tho it, an ithers in its group cried the salicylates, hae seemilar effects (antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic) tae the ither NSAIDs an inhibit the same enzyme cyclooxygenase, aspirin (but nae the ither salicylates) daes sae in an irreversible manner an, unlik ithers, affects mair the COX-1 variant than the COX-2 variant o the enzyme.[11]

The day, aspirin is ane o the maist widely uised medications in the warld, wi an estimatit 40,000 tonnes o it bein consumed each year.[12] In kintras whaur Aspirin is a registered trademark awned bi Bayer, the generic term is acetylsalicylic acid (ASA).[13]

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  4. Lewis, H. Daniel; Davis, James W.; Archibald, Donald G.; Steinke, William E.; Smitherman, Thomas C.; Doherty, James E.; Schnaper, Harold W.; LeWinter, Martin M.; Linares, Esteban; Pouget, J. Maurice; Sabharwal, Subhash C.; Chesler, Elliot; DeMots, Henry (18 August 1983). "Protective Effects of Aspirin against Acute Myocardial Infarction and Death in Men with Unstable Angina. Results of a Veterans Administration Cooperative Study". New England Journal of Medicine. 309 (7): 396–403. doi:10.1056/NEJM198308183090703. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 6135989.
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