There has been a long-standing myth that the daily consumption of aspirin might help prevent heart disease in the long run; and now, a new aspirin study on heart disease has shown that there's a wide array of people who unnecessarily take the Bayer invention in a failed attempt to prevent further issues.

While it has been said for years that an aspirin a day keeps the doctor away (something that was even discussed by controversial Dr. Mehmet Oz, as he tried to prove whether it was true that it could prevent cancer), a new aspirin study on heart disease has shown that not only is that a misconception, but the belief might be damaging people.

According to Syracuse, the research regarding the aspirin study on heart disease was just recently published on the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, under the title "Frequency and Practice-Level Variation in Inappropriate Aspirin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease."

The New York Times reports that the aspirin study on heart disease discovered that in a universe of 68,808 patients who took aspirin to prevent having heart issues later on, 7,972 of them (which amounts to 11.6 percent) were doing it in spite of the fact that they naturally had a risk of this lower than 6 percent.

Some of the groups of patients were even more likely to abuse aspirin in their daily routines, as, for example, women, as the 17 percent of the ones studied in the research had little to no possibility of developing heart conditions anyway.

While it is true that those people with a tendency towards heart diseases could benefit from daily consumption of aspirin, those who do not suffer from any of these could be damaging their bodies in another ways, as aspirin prevents enzyme cyclo-oxygenase to do its job properly for those who do not naturally get blood clots, according to the Los Angeles Times; this is only recommended for people who already have issues with blood clots.

It is unclear whether the participants of the aspirin study on heart disease were consuming the medicine under the supervision of their cardiologists.