Posts Tagged 'blood clots'

A study by the University of Michigan Health System found that patients receiving outpatient surgery, or same-day surgery that doesn’t require an overnight hospital stay, are at risk for blood clots. But unlike their counterparts who are hospitalized, the same-day surgery patients sometimes don’t get adequate warnings about the blood clot risks.

The study found that 1-in-84 of the highest-risk patients suffers a dangerous blood clot after surgery.

According to a University ...

A CNN report says that depression is a risk factor for stroke, although a relatively minor one.

The report cites research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which suggests that as many as 4 percent of the estimated 795,000 strokes that occur in the United States each year can be attributed to depression.

Lead researcher An Pan, Ph.D., said the depression might add to stroke risk because people with ...

According to a study from New Zealand, workers who spend long periods of time immobile at their desks could be putting themselves at risk for potentially fatal blood clots.

A BBC report says researchers found that a third of patients hospitalized with deep vein thrombosis were office workers who spent extended periods of time at a computer.

The report says the condition is commonly called “economy class syndrome,” because passengers sitting in ...

A former board member of Our Bodies, Ourselves, a nonprofit women’s advocacy group, publicly questioned why industry-funded studies were the only ones that appeared to show no higher risk of blood clots from the Yasmin line of contraceptives, compared to other types of birth control pills on the market.

An entry in the organization’s blog mentions testimony that Pamela Bridgewater presented at a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel’s December ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System are publishing a study this month in the Journal of Circulation indicating that older adults who get infections are nearly three times as likely to be hospitalized for a blood clot in their deep veins or lungs.

The study shows that recent exposure to an infection of any kind — including urinary, skin, or respiratory tract infections – is the most common ...