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anticoagulants

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  1. Substances that slow down or prevent blood clotting.


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Consider anticoagulants, medications that prevent blood from clotting.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 17, 2025

Which is why slower-acting substances, mainly anticoagulants - drugs that stop blood forming into clots - are used.

From BBC Sep. 25, 2025

To prevent these complications in people with known AFib, clinicians often prescribe anticoagulants -- drugs that prevent blood clots -- as well as other lifestyle and medical therapies.

From Science Daily Dec. 12, 2023

Luckily, physicians had already stocked the I.S.S. with a 40-day emergency supply of anticoagulants, among other medications, just in case.

From New York Times Nov. 12, 2023

The consent form’s language on anticoagulants was also less ominous than the revised version, written for an extension phase in which all trial participants could elect to receive lecanemab if they met certain inclusion criteria.

From Science Magazine Dec. 30, 2022

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