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A long-haul flight triples your risk of DVT

Started by LostInTime, September 25, 2007, 08:48:33 AM

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LostInTime

Times Online
Nigel Hawkes

The risk of thromboses increased with exposure to more flights within a short period of time, and with increasing duration of flights. It was particularly high in people under 30, in women who used oral contraceptives, and in those who were particularly short, tall or overweight.
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Thundra

QuoteThe risk of thromboses increased with exposure to more flights within a short period of time, and with increasing duration of flights. It was particularly high in people under 30, in women who used oral contraceptives, and in those who were particularly short, tall or overweight.

Weird, really, really weird.  Tall and overweight people like myself I can understand, but shorter and younger folks?  That is very strange.
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Dennis

Quote from: Thundra on September 25, 2007, 06:01:37 PM
QuoteThe risk of thromboses increased with exposure to more flights within a short period of time, and with increasing duration of flights. It was particularly high in people under 30, in women who used oral contraceptives, and in those who were particularly short, tall or overweight.

Weird, really, really weird.  Tall and overweight people like myself I can understand, but shorter and younger folks?  That is very strange.

Thundra, I've met you irl. Tall you are. Overweight you are not.

Dennis
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Thundra

Yeah, but you also saw what I used to look like. Getting old sucks.

So, yeah, I feel pretty overweight.  I need to lose about ten pounds, or so.

I need to work out more.

You are pretty buff yourself there sir.
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