Why asthmatic patients is a contraindication for aspirin?

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2026-04-16 06:30

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aspirin blocks the COX-1 pathway, which helps for antiinflammatory purposes, but if you block this pathway, then all the arachidonic acid that begins that pathway gets diverted to the the leukotriene synthesis pathway via the enzyme lipooxygenase... which causes bronchoconstriction.

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