Word: clots
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...intimacies, things turn out just fine: softcolored lights, unforced endearments, a jolly bathtub wallow and the strains of Marianne's favorite pop tune, Sugarbaby, percolating in their ears. This is about where Writer-Director Percy Adlon (Celeste, The Swing) gets carried away with his odd-couple romance. Gooey gels clot the lens, and the camera sways without reason like an inebriated gyroscope; bring a neck brace. But Adlon holds his focus on his heroine, who, in ecstasy or defeat, knows that love means never having to care that you're silly...
...Roosevelt decried the War Department’s lack of preparation. He had already started to think about the 1920 nomination when his youngest son, Quentin, a pilot, was killed during an aerial fight with the Germans. Six months later, Roosevelt himself suffered a fatal blood clot. He never regained the coveted office that he left...
...separate study, researchers at the University of Chicago found that ginseng, which is widely used to boost energy, can sometimes do more harm than good. In 20 volunteers, taking the herb disrupted the effects of the clot-busting drug warfarin, prescribed for millions of heart-attack patients. Because warfarin's dosage must be precise--too little can lead to clotting and too much can cause bleeding--any substance that alters its potency can have serious consequences...
Though they happen in the brain, strokes are a lot like heart attacks; the same risk factors that lead to a coronary can increase the risk of a clot-based stroke. One common factor, which doubles the risk of stroke, is metabolic syndrome, a condition marked by such abnormalities as high levels of glucose and triglycerides, low levels of good cholesterol, and high blood pressure. Being overweight is another, according to Swedish scientists, who found that heavy middle-aged men had twice the risk of a stroke. Not surprisingly, cholesterol-lowering statins developed for heart patients also work for stroke...
...brain can take a bad hit too in the form of stroke. About 75% of strokes are caused by a blood clot or loose plaque racing through the system and lodging in the vessels of the brain, where it cuts off the flow of oxygenated blood. Other strokes are essentially hemorrhages, ruptures in brain vessels that give way under elevated pressure...