Why men are more at risk of diseases caused by blood clots than women
Friday, July 11, 2008 - 03:35
in Health & Medicine
Being male increases your risk of diseases caused by the inappropriate formation of a blood clot (a process known as thrombosis), such as heart attack and stroke, but the reasons for this are not completely understood. However, Ethan Weiss and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, have used a mouse model of thrombosis to shed new light on this matter.
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