Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, July 1st, 2005
According to the report from the United States, "Blood platelets maintain vascular integrity and promote primary and secondary hemostasis following interruption of vessel continuity. Biochemical or physical damage to coronary, carotid, or peripheral arteries promotes excessive platelet activation and recruitment culminating in vascular occlusion and tissue ischemia."
A.J. Marcus and colleagues of Cornell University continued, "Currently, inadequate therapeutic approaches to stroke and coronary artery disease (CAD) are a public health...
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