Word: platelet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known that cigarette smokers are more susceptible than non-smokers to heart attacks caused by arterial thrombosis, or clotting. A physician at Tufts-New England Medical Center now suggests why. Dr. Peter Levine reports in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association, that smoking accelerates the activity of platelets, the blood components that aid in the clotting process by sticking together. Levine bases his finding on an 18-month study of 27 healthy male and female volunteers who had blood samples drawn from their arms every ten minutes during the test periods. Once the subjects' usual clotting rates...