Staying Active and Healthy With Blood Thinners - Part 5 - Remember Your Meds

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Channel: PublicResourceOrg · 2010 · Education

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Staying Active and Healthy With Blood Thinners - Part 5 - Remember Your Meds - Health and Human Services 2009 - AHRQ 09-0086-DVD - Agency for Healthcare Resarch and Quality. People often worry about how routine medicines like blood thinner pills will affect their lifestyles. With a few simple steps, taking a blood thinner can be safe and easy. In fact, more than 2 million people take blood thinners every day to keep them from developing dangerous blood clots. Staying Active and Healthy with Blood Thinners is a 10-minute video that shows how small changes in daily routines can help people take blood thinners safely.  What is a blood thinner? What does it do? Why it is helpful? These questions are answered in this video, which features easy-to-understand explanations of how blood thinners work and why it's important to take them correctly. It also introduces BEST, an easy way to remember how to fit blood thinner medication into daily life.

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