:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/elfinanciero/B522CGQGTNHW7F2WUBJAA6VGVI.jpeg "Did you get COVID? The risk of developing blood clots is 33 times higher – El Financiero")
One study suggests that people recovered from COVID-19 have a 33 times higher risk of suffering from illnesses linked to blood clotssuch as deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism, compared to people who have not been infected.
The study recently posted on The British Medical Journal states that COVID-19 is a risk factor for people to develop blood-related diseases. But not everything is so bad, since the results can also have an impact on recommendations and diagnostic strategies to prevent illnesses and take greater care of people recovered from the virus.
This research work, coming from scientists in Sweden, It is the result of monitoring one million 57 thousand 174 people infected with COVID-19 in February 2020 and May 2021. Initially, the observation period in infected people was from one to 30 days, although it was detected that the incidence in cases related to venous thrombosis began to increase up to 70 days after infection.
For its part, the cases that presented pulmonary embolisms, the incidence increased 110 days after being infected.
The results of the Swedish population study indicated that the risk of people who have been infected with COVID-19 specifically develop pulmonary embolisms is 33.05 times higherr, while the chances of developing a venous thrombosis is lower.
One of the main reasons for scientists to carry out this research with a sample of more than a million people is due to the “contradictory” data that have been previously estimated about the impact of COVID on diseases linked to blood clots.
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