How to Use warfarin in a Sentence

warfarin

noun

• One of the most well-known is Coumadin, or its generic version, warfarin.
  — Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 17 May 2018
• The DOACs are short acting drugs, while warfarin keeps acting for well over 24 hours.
  — Howard Lewine, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• 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
• But these mice were buoyed by their warfarin-resistant copies of vkorc1.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2011
• One such product is warfarin, a chemical found in plants like sweet clover.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The new drugs have proved to be an expensive alternative to warfarin.
  — John Fauber and Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Cannabis can interact with certain medications, like warfarin, a drug used to treat blood clots.
  — Christina Caron, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• 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
• For example, vitamin A may decrease the function of warfarin, a blood thinner.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 28 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Fenugreek and other herbs can also interfere with warfarin and other blood thinners to cause bleeding.
  — Lainey Younkin, Ms, Rd, Parents, 15 May 2024
• 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
• When tests revealed the clot, Dr. Frayling was prescribed the anticoagulant warfarin.
  — Suryatapa Bhattacharya, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• By the time humans developed warfarin, Algerian mice already had a head-start in resisting it.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2011
• Cimetidine also interacts with other drugs such as the blood thinner warfarin.
  — Joe Graedon, M.s., and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Senna's laxative effect may also increase the blood-thinning effect of the medication Coumadin (warfarin) and increase bleeding risk.
  — Cristina Mutchler, Health, 1 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024