Four hours of travel 'a DVT risk'
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The risk of developing potentially fatal blood clots doubles after travel lasting four hours, experts find.
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Working to tight deadlines can increase the risk of a heart attack six-fold, Swedish researchers say.
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Woman who take estrogen and progestin, a combination hormone replacement therapy (HRT), have double the risk of developing blood clots.
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Sitting in a cube staring at a computer all day boosts office workers' risk of developing deadly deep-vein thrombosis. By the Associated Press.
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NEW YORK  - Trainee doctors have double the  risk of having a car crash when they work more than 24  consecutive hours, according to a new report.
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The pressure of meeting a work deadline can produce a sixfold increase in the risk of suffering a heart attack over the course of the following day.
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NEW YORK  - Fever in travelers returning home is a marker of potentially grave illness, according to researchers who report the findings from global surveillance of travel-related illnesses.
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A 43-year-old woman who had been sleeping in her car after a series of earthquakes in Japan has died from a suspected case of deep vein thrombosis.
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An analysis in a prominent medical journal reports that the painkiller Vioxx demonstrated an increased risk of heart attack four years ago and should have been withdrawn long before Sept.
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NEW YORK  - Cancer greatly increases the  risk that the patients will develop a blood clot in a vein  (venous thrombosis), especially in recently diagnosed patients,  patients with cancer that has spread to distant sites  (metastases), and those with certain genetic mutations,  according to Dutch researchers. While anticoagulant therapy  might be beneficial, they say, the associated increased risk of  bleeding has to be considered.
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People who are under short-term but intense pressure to meet deadlines run a six times higher risk of having a heart attack within the next 24 hours, according to a study published in
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NEW YORK  - Among people with diabetes,  wearing inadequate footwear triples the risk of lower-leg  amputation, according to a report from Barbados.
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The pressure of meeting an important deadline at work increases the risk of suffering a heart attack within 24 hours by a factor of six, Swedish doctors say.
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A recent German study has found that people prone to a heart attack face triple their usual risk as a result of traffic, whether they are in cars, on bicycles or on mass transit.
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Stroke survivors who stop taking prescribed daily aspirin triple the risk of another stroke within a month, research suggests.
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High-pressure work deadlines can cause a six-fold increase in the risk of suffering a heart attack in the following 24 hours, a study has suggested.
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WHAT THEY FOUND: Obese patients with blunt trauma injuries caused by car accidents, motorcycle falls and assault were five times more likely to die than other patients with similar injuries.