The Complexity Science Hub research team and the Medical University of Vienna have discovered that women with diabetes mellitus run a greater risk of venous thromboembolism (or simply thrombus) than men, especially during perimenopause.
In a study based on 45 million hospitalizations and 7,239,710 patients in Austria between 2003 and 2014, it was found that the risk of venous thromboembolism in women with diabetes mellitus was 1.52 times greater than in women without diabetes mellitus, while forMen risk was 1.3 times higher.
The results showed that the maximum risk occurred in women between 50 and 59 years, where the risk was 1.65 times higher.
Although the term venous thromboembolism is the official medical term to refer to this condition, it is also common to use colloquial terms to refer to it.Some examples of colloquial terms that can be used to refer to venous thromboembolism include:
- Thrombo
- Deep vein thrombosis (TVP)
- Pulmonary embolia
- TEP (pulmonary thromboembolia)