Love Traveling, High Risk Got Blood Clots
Experts say that the risk is serious enough, so it is deserve to do some research on how to maintain the health of people who are traveling, although it is not recommended to certify the action by giving passengers anti-clotting drugs.
Dr. Divay Chandra and colleagues at Harvard University in Boston specifically examine the “venous thromboembolism (VTE)”, it is the development of blood clots in the veins, usually in the legs.
Blood clots can also lead to stroke and heart attack when it occurs in the arteries but VTE can result in local damage or flow to the heart and killing humans.
Chandra team did what is called a meta-analysis, pooled the results of many different studies to see what they found.
They found 14 studies involving 4,000 patients that met their criteria about quality.
“Our findings demonstrate a clear association between travel and VTE,” they wrote in their report, published in the journal “Annals of Internal Medicine”.
Women who are pregnant or taking birth control pills and fat people have a very high risk, they said. The risk is one case in every 4,600 trip flight, they said.
“The findings in this report indicate that, at least among generally healthy, even three-fold increase in relative risk would seem to produce the full risk of substantial interference to adopt higher risk, such as drug delivery chewable anti-clotting blood during the trip, “they wrote.
But ensure that people drink extra fluids and stand and move every two hours or more is useful enough, they said.
“Around the world, 2.5 billion passengers traveled by air in 2010, which reinforce the citizens of the world are very much at risk of this serious condition.