By the way, doctor: Celebrex and bleeding
But celecoxib (Celebrex) is a COX-2 inhibitor, and the COX-2 inhibitors have just the opposite problem: they tend to cause the blood to clot, which in a coronary artery can lead to a heart attack, and in a cerebral one, to an ischemic stroke. Two other COX-2 inhibitors, rofecoxib (Vioxx) and valdecoxib (Bextra), were taken off the market for this reason. So far, Celebrex is proving to be safer, which is why the FDA has allowed it to stay on the market.
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