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Liputan6.com, Jakarta Researchers from Sweden, the UK, and Finland found that survivors COVID-19 have a higher risk of developing blood clots in the legs and lungs within 3-6 months after infection.
An international research team compared more than 1 million people in Sweden who tested positive for COVID-19 between February 2020 and May 2021 with 4 million control patients who tested negative.
They found three to six months after contracting COVID-19, patients were at higher risk of being diagnosed with blood clotting in their legs or lungs. These results were later published in British Medical Journal (BMJ), Wednesday (6/4/2022).
The report said, in particular, patients had a 4 percent increased risk of deep vein thrombosis or Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT), a blood clot that forms deep in the thigh or lower leg, up to three months after infection with COVID-19.
“Patients also have a high 17 percent risk of developing pulmonary embolism or pulmonary embolism Pulmonary Embolism (PE), clots that develop in blood vessels and travel to the arteries of the lungs, up to six months after viral infection ABCThursday (7/4/2022).
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