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How to use the word Platelets in a Sentence?

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But what we’re seeing with erythritol is the platelets become super responsive — a mere 10% stimulant produces 90 to 100% of a clot formation, for people who are at risk for clotting, heart attack and stroke — like people with existing cardiac disease or people with diabetes — I think that there’s sufficient data here to say stay away from erythritol until more studies are done.

Stanley Hazen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our blood vessels are always under pressure and we spring leaks, and blood platelets are constantly plugging these holes all the time.

Stanley Hazen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was really tired, [Donating platelets] saps me … I had no energy.

Bob Barnes

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Nearly all reports of this serious condition, which involves blood clots with low platelets, have been in adult women younger than 50 years old.

The CDC

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I drilled a hole into her shin bone and placed an intraosseous line -- a bone catheter -- so that we could inject platelets and medications into her blood through her bone marrow. I can not imagine her parents' horror on hearing the crack of the drill bit into their baby's leg, we took turns pounding on this baby's chest and trying to pump air into lungs that had filled with blood.

Maureen Nemetski

Found on CNN
4 years ago

She was at risk of bleeding out if she were to be hit or cut because her platelets were so low.

Kimberly Anderson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

All we need is a few more Zika hotspots and there will be a shortage of platelets across the country.

Richard Benjamin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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