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2. Antithrombotic - Wikipedia

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   Different antithrombotics affect different blood clotting processes: Antiplatelet drugs limit the migration or aggregation of platelets. Anticoagulants limit the ability of the blood to clot. Thrombolytic drugs act to dissolve clots after they have formed.

3. Anticoagulant - Wikipedia

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   An anticoagulant, commonly known as a blood thinner, is a chemical substance that prevents or reduces the coagulation of blood, prolonging the clotting time. [1] Some occur naturally in blood-eating animals, such as leeches and mosquitoes , which help keep the bite area unclotted long enough for the animal to obtain blood.

4. Cardiovascular agents - Wikipedia

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   Blood clots are formed to prevent an injured blood vessel from excessive bleeding by a mechanism called hemostasis. The body has intrinsic mechanisms to dissolve the blood clot as the injury heals. However, it can be dangerous when clots do not dissolve naturally and develop within vessels, also known as thrombosis.

5. Atherosclerosis: What Men Need to Know About Plaque ... - AOL

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   Blood thinners for people at risk for blood clots. Medications to help lower your blood sugar. Metformin to help control plaque for people with diabetes. Nitrates to reduce chest pain from angina.

6. Researchers are developing a blood thinner with a lower risk ...

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   Anticoagulants, or blood thinners, are one medication type for which researchers are interested in creating effective and fast-acting antidotes. This could allow for reversing their effects when ...

7. Heart diseases raise dementia risk: Could a common blood ...

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   Heparin, a form of heparan sulfate used since the 1930s to prevent blood clots, does not enter the brain, but researchers speculate it could delay Alzheimer’s by disrupting ApoE-HSPG interactions.