Futurity August 5, 2024
While most treatments for cardiac events target breaking down blood clots, researchers have found a way to prevent blood clots from even forming.
Dramatically, their drug is shown to completely knock out the formation of blood clots without increasing the risks of bleeds in vivo.
This drug is both affordable and already widely available for other uses, meaning patients could experience these benefits sooner than waiting for a completely new drug to go through FDA approval. Eventually, the drug could be used to prevent second heart attacks for high-risk patients or even primary heart attacks, strokes, and other complications caused by blood clots.
The researchers presented their findings in a paper in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology.
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