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2. Warfarin - Wikipedia

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   Warfarin, sold under the brand name Coumadin among others, is an anticoagulant medication. [12] While the drug is described as a "blood thinner", it does not reduce viscosity but rather prevents blood clots from forming (coagulating).

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. Direct factor Xa inhibitors - Wikipedia

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   Prior to the introduction of direct factor Xa inhibitors, vitamin K antagonists such as warfarin were the only oral anticoagulants for over 60 years, and together with heparin have been the main blood thinners in use. People admitted to hospital requiring blood thinning were started on an infusion of heparin infusion, which thinned blood ...

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. What Is Heart Disease? Everything You Need to Know - AOL

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   Blood thinners. Anticoagulants, sometimes called blood thinners, prevent blood clots and are typically prescribed after heart attacks or strokes. Calcium channel blockers. These drugs relax blood ...

7. Bad News for Blood Thinners? - AOL

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   Earlier this week, Motley Fool health-care bureau chief Brenton Flynn discussed Johnson & Johnson's failed attempt to get its blood thinner Xarelto approved by the FDA for a lucrative new ...

8. Thrombosis prevention - Wikipedia

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   Blood thinners are used to prevent clots, these blood thinners have different effectiveness and safety profiles. A 2018 systematic review found 20 studies that included 9771 people with cancer. The evidence did not identify any difference between the effects of different blood thinners on death, developing a clot, or bleeding. [2]

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

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   In another new study, researchers suggest that the blood thinner heparin may delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease by interfering with harmful protein interactions in the brain; however, more ...