Xarelto 10mg Tablet is a medicine known as an anticoagulant or blood thinner It helps prevent and treat blood clots It is used to reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack It prevents and treats clot formation in the veins of your legs lungs brain and heart Xarelto 10mg Tablet is commonly used in patients with irregular heart rhythm atrial fibrillation to prevent clot formation It also reduces the risk of getting clots in people who have undergone knee or hip replacement surgeries It should be taken with food and it is best to take them at the same time each day You may need to take this medicine for many years even for life in some cases Do not stop taking it or change the dose without guidance from your doctor It could quickly put you more at risk of having a heart attack stroke or thrombosis formation of a blood clot within a blood vessel You can reduce your risk of having a blood clot by making changes to your lifestyle such as not smoking eating a healthy diet getting regular exercise and losing weight if you need to