Word: clotted
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Scientists have long known that venom from the southern copperhead, native to the Eastern U.S. and Mexico, contains a powerful clot buster. In the mid-1990s, a team led by biochemist Francis Markland, of the University of Southern California, discovered that the venom may also fight cancer...
...scab develops into a fatty deposit, filled with cholesterol, proteins and bits of cellular detritus. Sometimes the plaque is quite stable, and nothing much happens. Other times, for reasons that are still unclear, it becomes inflamed and prone to rupture. If the plaque breaks open, a clot forms, choking off the supply of blood. If the interruption lasts long enough, a heart attack ensues...
ROTO-ROOTER It took a study of 62,000 patients to confirm what many cardiologists already suspected: when it comes to heart attacks, angioplasties save more lives than clot-busting drugs. Both treatments aim to clear arterial blockages that deprive the heart of oxygen. But the odds of dying in a hospital after an emergency angioplasty--a balloon-tipped catheter is threaded through the vessel--are 40% lower than after a round of clot busters. Caveat: the finding applies only to centers that perform angioplasties frequently--at least 50 times a year...
...still contain nine calories per gram. Health experts are increasingly intrigued by a group of good fats called omega-3 fatty acids, and what's good about them is that they lower the level of triglycerides (one of the bad fats) and decrease the risk of suffering a blood clot. Salmon, sardines and tuna are so full of omega-3 fatty acids that the American Heart Association for the first time recommended that everyone eat two 3-oz. servings of fatty fish each week...
...Heart A powerful new clot-busting drug, tenecteplase, reduced treatment time for heart-attack victims from 90 minutes to just five seconds. Clinical trials showed the drug to be as effective as the standard clot buster t-PA and easier to use since it can be administered in one quick injection instead of an hour-and-a-half infusion. Tenecteplase, which was approved by the FDA last June, is also longer acting and specifically targets blood clots, rather than indiscriminately thinning the blood. Good news for the more than 1.1 million Americans each year who suffer a heart attack...