Clotting Factor

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
CF
Pronunciation
/ˈklɑtɪŋ ˈfæktər/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Laboratory

Examples in Context

  1. They also had smaller waists, lower levels of potentially harmful blood fats, and lower glucose, insulin and clotting factor levels in men, high levels of which are linked to a raised heart attack and stroke risk.
  2. Hemophilia is a rare blood disorder, and people born with this condition have little or no clotting factor, a protein that controls bleeding.
  3. Hemophilia can be mild, moderate, or severe, depending on how much clotting factor is present in one's blood.
  4. People who are obese, pregnant, taking birth control pills or hormones, or who have certain inherited clotting factor abnormalities are more prone to developing them.
  5. In in vivo study, the results showed that AAV-mF ⅸ only existed in muscle around the injection site and the expression of mouse clotting factor IX lasted more than 200 days.

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