What markers define healthy blood function? Key strategies include regulating dietary iron, monitoring hematological counts, and identifying symptoms of vascular clots like DVT.
Blood clots are clumps of blood that form in the blood vessels and can travel into the heart, lungs and brain. Blood clots can cause conditions such as strokes, angina, arterial embolisms, deep vein thrombosis, heart attacks, pulmonary embolisms and renal vein thrombosis.
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Thick blood, hypercoagulability, is a condition where your blood is thicker and sticker than normal and is due to an abnormality in the blood clotting process.
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Hypercalcemia is an excessive level of calcium in the blood and can be the result of various medical conditions such as primary hyperparathyroidism, kidney failure, cancer, excess vitamin D levels and too much calcium in the diet or from supplements.
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Coumadin is a brand-name for the drug warfarin and is prescribed to patients at risk for blood clots. It is an anticoagulant and designed to thin the blood.
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