Good news from today's Guardian

[Stinky1953]

Stick to the script – Patients taking blood thinners for heart palpitations have a sharply reduced risk of dementia, medical researchers have found. Evidence suggests a 48% lower risk, compared with people who have atrial fibrillation (AF) but are not on the pills. Experts now believe the drugs prevent not only major stroke, but microscopic clots that cause cumulative damage to the brain.

[souljacs4]

Good news for a change thank you for posting

[Luludean]

O that is good!

[Trish5]

Hi Stinky ... Sorry, I didn't see you had posted this so I've just gone and posted the same thing after reading the Guardian. Obviously, you get up earlier than I do.

Trish

[BobD Volunteer]

Pretty much what I have been saying for years ( I used the term micro embolii ) but I do wish they wouldn't call anticoagulants blood thinners as they are not.

[CaroleF in reply to BobD]

Why, oh why, do members of the medical profession use the term 'blood thinner'? Do they think we are all stupid/unable to understand the terminology? Next time a medic uses that term to me I'm going to ask them why!

[Stinky1953]

I guess it's just dumbing down for Joe public.

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I've heard an EP call them blood thinners at a conference (he stumbled as he said it)! And if you go onto the NHS website there's a page on "blood thinners", and then another page describing how anticoagulants, to use their proper name, do not thin the blood !!!!!

I still reckon they're called that because "anticoagulants" is not an easy word to remember.

[djmnet]

Good news, this!