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  • Does Aspirin Protect Healthy Women from Heart Attacks?

    09/01/05, Johns Hopkins University

    Nearly 40,000 apparently healthy women aged 45 or older in the Women?s Health Study were randomly assigned to take either a placebo or 100 mg of…

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  • Anticoagulants for stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA)

    01/08/09, Healthwise

    Although anticoagulants are often called blood thinners, they do not really thin blood. Warfarin prevents the production of certain proteins that are necessary for blood to clot. Heparin and newer low-molecular-weight heparins interfere w

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  • Oral anticoagulants for deep vein thrombosis

    01/15/08, Healthwise

    Normally, when an injury that causes bleeding occurs, the body sends out signals that cause blood to clot at the wound, and the clot naturally breaks down as the wound heals. A person prone to abnormal clotting has an imbalance between cl

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  • Hydrochlorothiazide and lisinopril

    03/11/08, Healthwise

    You should not use this medication if you are allergic to any other ACE inhibitor, such as benazepril (Lotensin), captopril (Capoten), fosinopril (Monopril), enalapril (Vasotec), moexipril (Univasc), perindopril (Aceon), quinapril (Accupril), ramipri

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