anticoagulants

1. Substances that slow down or prevent blood clotting.

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Consider anticoagulants, medications that prevent blood from clotting.

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

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"But refining the risks of brain clots and bleeds from anticoagulants and using this information to make the best treatment choice could improve treatment safety for people with heart disease."

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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.

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A: We know that mosquito saliva has some factors in it, anticoagulants and things like that, that may or may not improve the infectivity.

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