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BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDERS

Fast Facts: Thrombophilia

If you have a gene that increases your risk of blood clots, you can make lifestyle changes that will prevent blood clots. You can find out about your genes by taking a simple, at-home genetic test.

About 1 out of every 1000 people in the United States will have a blood clot in the veins, called a venous thrombosis.
Venous blood clots are more common in men than women.
It is estimated that 200,000 people die each year from these blood clots. This is more than breast cancer, AIDS and car accidents combined.
Blood clotting disorders, or thrombophilia, can be inherited or acquired. About 25 percent of people with a venous blood clot have an inherited disorder.
Of the 200,000 or so new cases of venous blood clots each year, most people who have an inherited blood clotting disorder do not know they have it.
The two most common inherited blood clotting disorders are factor V Leiden and the prothrombin mutation (factor II).
About 5 to 7 percent of Caucasians (white people of European descent) have factor V Leiden and 2 to 3 percent have the prothrombin mutation. These genetic changes are less common in other ethnicities.
The risk of having a blood clot increases with age in everyone, but the risk further increases for people who have an inherited blood clotting disorder.

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