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Travel boom sparks blood clot warning
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Travel boom sparks blood clot warning

C. Leary and R. Baker
West Australian, Vol.7 September 2013
West Australian Newspapers Limited
2013

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A Perth doctor says the risk of deep vein thrombosis is increasing from cheap flights, high-frequency business travel and more baby boomers and retirees seeing the world. Ross Baker, a professor at Murdoch University’s centre for thrombosis and haemophilia, said the risk of travel-related DVT was still relatively low in healthy people but other factors, including being older than 40, increased the risk...

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