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Why should patients with heart disease avoid cabbage and turnips


Why should patients with heart disease avoid cabbage and turnips?

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Only if you are taking coumadin, a blood thinning agent. It thin the blood by blocking the vitamin related pathway. So if you eat lots of high vitamin K food such as those in this question, the effectiveness of coumadin would be adversely affected and blood may clot in the heart or artery which could be lethal



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