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Blood-Clot Danger Reassessed

CHICAGO - New research suggests the risk of potentially deadly  blood clots from long airline flights is small but rises sharply in people who are older, overweight or taking birth-control pills.

In one study, blood clots in the lung - the most serious travel-related kind - occurred more frequently on flights lasting longer than eight hours.

In that study, 16 cases were detected among international passengers arriving at Spain's Madrid-Barajas Airport from 1995 to 2000.  All of them involved flights longer than six hours.

The overall lung blood-clot risk was 0.39 cases per l million passengers.

SOURCE: The Associated Press, Home News Tribune, 12-09-03

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