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These medicines reduce your risk for heart attack, stroke, and blockages in your arteries and veins by preventing clumps of blood (blood clots) from forming or growing. However, blood thinners cannot break up blood clots that have already formed. Blood thinners are part of a class of medicines called anticoagulants. Although they are called blood thinners, these medicines do not really thin your blood. Instead, they decrease the blood's ability to clot. Decreased clotting keeps fewer harmful blood clots from forming and from blocking blood vessels. Oral anticoagulants come in a pill form that you swallow. Note: Other more powerful blood thinners, such as heparin, need to be injected by a needle into your bloodstream. These kinds of blood thinners will be given to you in the hospital, where you can be closely watched for complications. A new form of heparin (called low molecular weight heparin) may be prescribed for you to take at home, under your doctor's supervision. There are different kinds of blood thinners. The amount of medicine that you need to take may vary. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist for more information about how and when to take this medicine
