References and Links: The Beat April 2024

What Is My Risk of Getting a Blood Clot, Really?

• Understanding Risk – United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
• Understanding Health Risks – National Institutes of Health News in Health
• Parkinson’s Disease in Women and Men: What’s the Difference? – Journal of Parkinson’s Disease
• Can Coffee Consumption Lower the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease? A Literature Review – Archives of Medical Science
• Impact of Blood Clots on the United States – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• The Value of Family History as a Risk Indicator for Venous Thrombosis – Archives of Internal Medicine
• Diabetes Mellitus is Associated with a Higher Relative Risk for Venous Thromboembolism in Females Than in Males – Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
• Cancer-associated Thrombosis: An Overview of Mechanisms, Risk Factors, and Treatment – Cancers (Basel)  
• Deep Venous Thrombosis Risk Factors – StatPearls
• Television Viewing and Venous Thrombo-Embolism: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
• Multiple Sources of Data Are Needed for Accurate Reporting of Blood Clots Following Surgery – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• The Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Oral Contraceptive Users: The Role of Genetic Factors-A Prospective Cohort Study of 240,000 Women in The UK Biobank – American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Patients Are Asking: How Do Blood Clots Form in the Body?

• Blood Clots – Cleveland Clinic
• New Insight into the Traditional Model of the Coagulation Cascade and its Regulation: Illustrated Review of a Three-Dimensional View – Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis
• Haemophilia – Nature Reviews Disease Primers
• How It All Starts: Initiation of the Clotting Cascade – Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Hemostasis – Cleveland Clinic
• Overview of the Coagulation System – Indian Journal of Anaesthesia
• Anticoagulants – Cleveland Clinic

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