Anticoagulants

Slow the clotting cascade — ‘thin the blood’

Antiplatelets

Stop platelets sticking together

Slow veins make fibrin clots: anticoagulants. Fast arteries make platelet clots: antiplatelets. Together they add up to more bleeding.

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