{"id":2514,"date":"2014-07-24T17:35:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T22:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2014-07-26T13:15:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T18:15:04","slug":"common-blood-thinner-ineffective-for-pregnant-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/common-blood-thinner-ineffective-for-pregnant-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Common blood thinner ineffective for pregnant women"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new study indicates that daily injections of a blood thinner does not effectively decrease the risk of pregnancy complications in women with a tendency to develop blood clots.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A large-scale, randomized trial was never conducted and until now it’s effectiveness has been unknown. The new study followed 292 women over 12 years and found no difference between the treated and untreated groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

The blood thinner,\u00a0low molecular weight heparin (or LMWH),\u00a0has been widely prescribed as a treatment for\u00a0women with thrombophilia since the 1990’s. Thrombophilia is\u00a0a condition that increases the risk of blood clots and affects the approximately 10 per cent of the population.<\/span><\/p>\n

Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal\u00a0The Lancet\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0July 24, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Marc Rodger, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  A new study indicates that daily injections of a blood thinner does not effectively decrease the risk of pregnancy complications in women with a tendency to develop blood clots.\u00a0 A large-scale, randomized trial was never conducted and until now it’s effectiveness has been unknown. The new study followed 292 women over 12 years and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2015,51,53,1379,476,1290],"class_list":["post-2514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-blood","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-pregnancy","tag-public-health","tag-reproduction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Ey","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}