Hyperglycaemia is associated with increased platelet aggregation that increases the risk of thrombosis in people with type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Low glycemic index (GI) meals high in ...

November 15, 2009 (Orlando, Florida) — Results for the first head-to-head comparison of different platelet-function tests suggests that a handful of platelet reactivity assays--used to test the ...

Proteolytic degradation products of fibrinogen, produced as a result of excessive fibrinolysis, have been demonstrated in the blood of cirrhotic patients. 7,8 Such degradation products, when formed in ...

October 30, 2007 (Baltimore, MD and Durham, NC) – More studies linking the effect of antiplatelet drugs on platelet function with clinical outcomes are urgently needed, a new review of the field ...

LOS ANGELES, CA—In patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) treated with prasugrel, the incidence of high on-treatment platelet reactivity depends on the type of platelet function test used, ...

A recently described hemorrhagic disorder characterized by defective platelet aggregation induced by collagen and epinephrine appears to be caused, in part, by the same abnormality induced by aspirin ...