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Get ready for valentines day with this Valentines Day Warfarin Guide!!! http://inrtracker.com/arti//valentines-warfarin-diet-guide

Happy holidays everyone! It's a little late, but here are the top 50 holiday recipes for warfarin patients. We scoured the web, and wrote out modifications to the recipes to make sure they'll fit in your diet perfectly :). http://inrtracker.com//top-50-holiday-recipes-for-warfarin

Straight from the Hughes Syndrome Foundation: "Ground-breaking APS research has been reported in Nature. Jane Salmon MD and colleagues appear to have solved the mystery of why women with APS have early miscarriages. Let's hope this can lead to even more effective and targeted treatment" http://www.nature.com//vaop/ncu/full/nrrheum.2015.150.html http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26474194

Want a challenge? Take this vitamin k quiz: http://inrtracker.com/articles/quizzes/vitamin-k-quiz-4-easy It's 1 of 6 quizzes from this page: http://inrtracker.com/articles/quizzes/

Multivitamins are a great way of obtaining all your daily required nutrients. Unfortunately, most multivitamins contain Vitamin K which may or may not be part of your recommended coumadin diet. K Free Daily is a multivitamin designed for people on anticoagulants. It does not contain Vitamin K or other nutrients research shows may interfere with INR. http://www.kfreedaily.com/

If you read one thing this week, read this definitive Coumadin diet article. http://inrtracker.com/articles/diet/coumadin-diet Please share this and spread the knowledge! You'll learn how to use food labels to figure out vitamin k (even though they don't include vitamin k!!), common drug interactions, exactly how vitamin k and warfarin work and the low dose vitamin k technique!!

Exercise can cause INRs to go down. Since exercise increases one's metabolism it decreases the time warfarin spends in the system, hence a lower INR. Bring the below study to your clinician to make sure they're factoring it into your warfarin therapy! Big thanks to Creighton University Clinical Director, Tom Lenz, Pharm.D for the research! http://inrtracker.com/discuss/inr-swings... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15107008

One to five percent of the healthy general population have Antiphospholipid Syndrome (Other Names: APS, APLS, or Hughes Syndrome). Learn more about it with our article here: http://inrtracker.com//medical-c/antiphospholipid-syndrome

Celebrity Chef Sandra Lee was rushed to the hospital Tuesday night. Sandra has Antiphospholipid Syndrome and takes blood thinners. We wish her the best and hope that she makes a full recovery! #sandralee #antiphospholipidsyndrome #warfarin... http://www.nydailynews.com//exclusive-sandra-lee-auto-immu

This Clinical Pharmacist says that changing what version of warfarin you're taking can impact your INR and contribute to INR swings. This is because generics and main brands - DO DEFER from one another. Quick take away: stick with one brand of Warfarin, and make sure the pharmacist gives you the same brand consistently. https://www.meded101.com/wild-times-with-warfarin/

This is very interesting: Hospitals that do more clot removal procedures do a better job than ones that do less clot removal procedures.

This is a great infographic summarizing clot related information.

How much vitamin k should you be getting while on Warfarin? Check out this discussion post on our forum: http://inrtracker.com/discuss/inr-up-tp-6-4