Does a common painkiller increase the risk of heart attack?

Doctors warn against taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs without a prescription.

Last week, a 60-year-old man visited the outpatient department of the National Cardiac Centre, for a health checkup. He told the doctor that he had been regularly taking aspirin and statins for around a decade due to a blockage in the left coronary artery and had taken Indomethacin, a painkiller to relieve the back pain.