Sentences with phrase «by a blood clot formed»

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The host's body will try to stop the bleeding by constricting blood vessels and coagulating the blood to form a clot.

These published studies showed that crude kuzu root preparations or their extracted flavonoids, given as injections or taken orally, Researchers also report that flavonoids lower cholesterol levels, reduce the risk of forming blood clots, protect the heart against cardiovascular disease, and protect the brain by dilating cerebral microvessels to increase blood flow.

Modeled after platelets — cells that circulate in the blood and help stop bleeding by forming clots — the nanoparticles are less than 100 nm wide and made of synthetic polymers stuck together like a ball of wet sand.

Shiqi Peng, Ming Zhao and colleagues note that aspirin lowers cardiovascular disease risk by keeping blood cells called platelets from clumping and forming clots.

The cell biologist helped explain how blood clots form by identifying factor XIII, the enzyme that binds proteins together to create a plug in a wound, preventing a person from bleeding to death.

Atrial Fibrillation — one of the most common forms of abnormal heart rhythm — is caused by these waves, and is a major cause of stroke as it increases the risk of blood clots forming inside the heart.

Aspirin helps prevent heart attacks and strokes by preventing blood clots from forming in arteries lined with unhealthy plaque buildup.

Haemophilia is an X-linked genetic disease that is characterised by a reduced ability to form blood clots, leading to bleeding problems.

This nutrient helps blood to clot by moving calcium into proteins that form a microscopic net to capture red blood cells.

Curcumin is a powerful antioxidant with anti-inflammatory properties that help lower blood pressure by lowering the excess platelet aggregation that occurs in sticky, clot - forming blood.

Also, hormone therapy treatments are used when advised by a doctor, even though successful research has been conducted in reducing * the possibilities of heart disease, cancer or blood clots forming.

First, vitamin K intake is essential to hemostasis, the physiological process by which blood platelets collect at the site of a cut or injury, forming a clot that staunches the loss of blood.

Curcumin also helps maintain histamine levels already in the normal range, promotes the production of cortisone by the adrenal glands, protects the liver from toxins, promotes a healthy response to internal challenges (especially in the cardiovascular system), and slows platelets from forming blood clots, which promotes healthy blood circulation.

For instance, animal platelets help prevent the continuous heavy flow of blood from wounds by forming a clot.

Von Willebrand's factor (vWf) is a group of numerous proteins involved in the «blood clotting cascade», the process by which the blood forms clots to stop active bleeding.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up to 600,000 Americans have deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, which is caused by blood clots that form in a person's lower leg or thigh and break off to join the blood stream.

According to the National Institute of Health, the risk of blood clots forming deep in a person's vein is increased by: