Containing iron supplements may help prevent deep venous thrombosis, and other blood clots, which can be life threatening. That is the conclusion reached by researchers from Imperial College London.
They studied 609 patients suffering from diseases of the blood vessels telangiectasia, which is due to an increased risk of blood clots. It turned out that this increased risk disappeared when the patients began to regularly take iron supplements . Before levels of iron in the blood they had relatively low as there is a constant loss of metal due to excessive bleeding.
Published in the journal Thorax study shows that levels of iron in six MML / l compared with normal levels in 17 MML / l resulted in an increased risk of deep venous thrombosis and other similar complications in two and a half times. Blood clots in the legs causing painful swelling, and in some cases lead to the formation of blood clots, which "travel" to the lungs. It causes fatal consequences.
According to the authors, low levels of iron in the blood It is a treatable risk factor for blood clots threat, but for the final confirmation of this hypothesis requires more extensive monitoring. If it is definitively proven, then medicine will have at its disposal sufficiently powerful preventative tool deadly complications.
Scientists believe that by anemic iron deficiency affects around a billion people on the planet. Earlier this relationship factor to the risk of blood clots did not pay attention, because the iron level varies during the day.
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