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Why bleeding time is shorter than clotting time?

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Platelets: The old clotting time tests only the coagulation factors, which tend to act more slowly. The bleeding time tests platelets, your circulating band-aids, which are there for small nicks. Reference ranges differ but results in individual patients depend on what's going on.

Dr Altman agreed

Answered 12/3/2017

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