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A new Dutch study has revealed that, children and members of the family which have the history of blood clotting in the veins are more likely to develop the disease than the siblings without family history.
Superficial and deep venous thrombosis, kinds of venous clotting, are lethal because it can travel to the pelvic arteries and lungs.
For this purpose, researchers compared the 1,605 patients of venous thrombosis with the 2,159 normal people that had never developed the condition. Study findings showed that the 31.5 venous thrombosis patients have a family history than the 17.3 of the controlled group.
blood clotting, family history, lungs, pelvic arteries, venous thrombosis
A review of existing data shows that people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have no help with some well-known inhalers to improve their life spans.
Contrarily, they may increase the risk of pneumonia (one of the biggest killers in the US) in these patients.
However, without doctor’s recommendation, patients with COPD must not avoid using these inhalers as these devices prove beneficial in a number of cases, said Dr. M. Bradley Drummond, the lead author of the review.
Dr. Drummond, who is a fellow at the pulmonary and critical care medicine division at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, says: “Aside from well-known benefits, there are some possible risks and the review is about balancing them.”
The study has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Nov.26 issue.
