jueves, 12 de marzo de 2015

Stop the Clot, Spread the Word™

Dept. of Health & Human Services
Mar 12, 2015
By: W. Craig Cooper, PhD, Acting Director, Division of Blood Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Even though the risk for blood clots may not concern you yet, they are serious and they occur frequently. Estimates are about 900,000 people a year get serious blood clots and of those, about 100,000 people die from them. On average, that’s one person dying from a blood clot about every 6 minutes.
Stop the Clot, Spread the Word™. CDC.
Blood clots occur most often in the legs, but can occur in the arms as well. If the clot breaks off and travels to  your lungs, this is serious. Most blood clots are preventable. That’s why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working with the National Blood Clot Alliance to make sure that the warning signs, risk factors, and what to do if this happens to you or a loved one are well known.
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