Standard blood-thinning unit

[treehouse]

Vitamin E (alpha-d-tocopherol) has been shown to prevent creeping arterial occlusion*, increasing cerebral circulation and decreasing the risk of ischemic strokes at a minimum effective dose of 100IU/day**. As a blood thinner (anti-coagulant) it has been shown to increase the risk of hemorrhagic strokes at a dose of 200IU/day***.

It would be useful to know exactly how much different substances thin the blood. Would it be necessary to include an anti-coagulant substance interaction table with this?

*http://www.fasebj.org/content/13/9/965.short
**http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/273/23/1849.short
***http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3998847.stm

[Ryan_m_b]

It would be useful to know exactly how much different substances thin the blood. Would it be necessary to include an anti-coagulant substance interaction table with this?

I'm not sure what you mean, include it with what?

EDIT: I just read the thread title again. Are you asking if there is a standard way to measure coagulation? Because I'm pretty sure there is (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prothrombin_time) and the value is given as a standardised International Sensitivity Index Score (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prothrombin_time#International_normalised_ratio)