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Daily aspirin lowers the risk of dangerous blood clots but raises the risk of serious bleeding. In adults who have never had a heart attack, the clot risk is already low, so the small further reduction aspirin offers is outweighed by the added bleeding risk.
Which of the following is the main conclusion of the argument?
- In healthy adults aspirin has no measurable effect at all on the risk of dangerous clots.
- For adults who have never had a heart attack, taking daily aspirin is not worthwhile.
- For the population at large, serious bleeding is a far more common problem than blood clots.
- Adults who have already suffered a heart attack should take daily aspirin without fail.
- Any drug that reduces one risk while raising another should be avoided.
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