Originally published September 26 2005
Study reveals link between obesity and blood clots
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Obesity increases the risk of venous thromboembolism -- a condition in which blood clots form in veins, with the potential to make a fatal journey to the lungs -- according to a Michigan study, although Reuters reports that the connection was first theorized in 1927.
Obesity boosts the risk of venous thromboembolism --- the formation in veins of blood clots that can travel to the lungs --- and is a particularly strong risk factor among men and women under 40 years old, according to a new report.
Obesity was first tied to fatal lung clots, or pulmonary embolisms, in 1927, Dr. Paul D. Stein of St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac, Michigan, and colleagues note in the American Journal of Medicine.
There is also evidence that excess weight may also increase the risk of deep venous thrombosis.
But there have been a number of difficulties in verifying this association.
To investigate whether obesity is in fact a risk factor for venous thromboembolism, Stein and his team reviewed 1979-1999 data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey, which included discharge information for more than 12 million obese patients and nearly 700 million patients not classified as obese.
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