How to Use warfarin in a Sentence
warfarin
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One of the most well-known is Coumadin, or its generic version, warfarin.
—Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 17 May 2018
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The DOACs are short acting drugs, while warfarin keeps acting for well over 24 hours.
—Howard Lewine, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2019
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Among Eliquis users, 1.3% had a stroke or a blood vessel clot, compared with 1.6% who got warfarin.
—John Fauber and Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
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But these mice were buoyed by their warfarin-resistant copies of vkorc1.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2011
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One such product is warfarin, a chemical found in plants like sweet clover.
—Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2022
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Price explains that the product is baited food laced with warfarin, a blood thinner used for humans that is lethal to hogs.
—Aaron Sidder, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
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From warfarin, Link derives a drug called Coumadin, which is used as a blood thinner to treat heart patients and prevent blood clotting.
—Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2018
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Part of the problem with warfarin is that for a long time there was no real substitute, so it was used despite its drawbacks.
—The Economist, 14 Mar. 2020
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The new drugs have proved to be an expensive alternative to warfarin.
—John Fauber and Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
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However, there is no reason to believe that this was more likely in the apixaban (Eliquis) arm than in the warfarin arm.
—John Fauber and Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
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Most experts choose one of the DOACs over warfarin because they have been proven to have lower risk of both stroke and major bleeding, compared with warfarin.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 17 Nov. 2022
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Then, on a longer-term basis, blood thinners in a pill form — Coumadin or its generic equivalent, warfarin — are prescribed.
—Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
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Based on the results of those tests, a doctor ordered him to discontinue warfarin and switch to another drug.
—Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 5 July 2018
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The first is warfarin, which humans take in small doses as a blood thinner and pest control companies use in much bigger doses to kill rats.
—Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
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For reference, the drug warfarin, which prevents blood clots, is tightly bound to proteins in the blood and has a volume of distribution of only 8 liters.
—Brad Reisfeld, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
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Cannabis can interact with certain medications, like warfarin, a drug used to treat blood clots.
—Christina Caron, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
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Upon discharge from the hospital, he was instructed to stick to a low-fat diet, maintain his weight at 175 pounds, and take 5 mg of the blood-thinner warfarin daily.
—Philly.com, 29 Oct. 2017
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For example, vitamin A may decrease the function of warfarin, a blood thinner.
—Amanda MacMillan, Health, 28 Sep. 2023
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For example, leafy greens with high amounts of vitamin K can lower the effectiveness of the blood thinner warfarin.
—Kayla B. Rowe, Fortune Well, 17 Sep. 2023
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That apparently referred to erroneous results in a test of blood clotting used for patients who take the blood thinner warfarin.
—Andrew Pollack, New York Times, 8 July 2016
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For clots in the legs, doctors usually will put a patient on injectable or IV blood thinners (like heparin), and then move them to blood thinners in a pill form (like warfarin or dabigatran), the Mayo Clinic says.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 17 July 2018
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Poison, perhaps in the form of the poisonous, tasteless blood thinner warfarin, could have easily been slipped in Stalin’s drink and could have caused his stomach hemorrhaging, Faria writes.
—Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 10 Oct. 2017
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When tests revealed the clot, Dr. Frayling was prescribed the anticoagulant warfarin.
—Suryatapa Bhattacharya, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
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Kaput comes in pellets that are infused with warfarin, an anticoagulant used to minimize the chances of blood clots in humans that can cause heart attacks or strokes.
—The Times-Picayune Editorial Board, NOLA.com, 1 June 2017
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Vitamin E can increase the risk of bleeding when it’s taken with blood-thinning medications like warfarin.
—Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 25 May 2023
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By the time humans developed warfarin, Algerian mice already had a head-start in resisting it.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2011
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Cimetidine also interacts with other drugs such as the blood thinner warfarin.
—Joe Graedon, M.s., and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2023
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But buyer beware: Goji can interact with the blood thinner warfarin and other diabetes and blood pressure drugs.
—Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 8 Feb. 2020
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The federal government has previously approved a feral hog bait that uses the blood-thinner warfarin, but no states have approved it so far, VerCauteren said.
—Janet McConnaughey, The Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2017
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But there are quite a few others, some of which cannot be tested for while on specific anticoagulants, such as protein C and S deficiency while on warfarin.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 4 May 2022
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