Compression stockings are specially made, snug-fitting, stretchy socks that gently squeeze your leg to promote circulation. They fit tighter than normal so they gently squeeze your legs, which helps improve your blood flow and reduces pain and swelling in your legs. They can also lower your chances of getting deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a kind […]
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Airplane and Blood clots (DVT)
Over 200,000 Americans will develop blood clots, also known as deep vein thrombosis (DVT), this year alone. Fifty thousand will develop pulmonary embolism (PE), [i] causing 25,000 deaths per year in the United States.[ii] In general terms, if you are healthy, you have a very low risk of developing DVT. However, the LONGFLIT study in the […]
Abdominal veins
Veins (/veɪn/) are blood vessels in the circulatory system of humans and most other animals that carry blood towards the heart. Most veins carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues back to the heart; exceptions are those of the pulmonary and fetal circulations which carry oxygenated blood to the heart. In the systemic circulation, arteries carry […]
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