Viennese physicians report that women with diabetes are particularly at risk of venous occlusion due to blood clots (venous thromboembolism). The risk is highest during menopause (perimenopause). During that time, these patients “should be monitored more carefully with regard to the development of venous thromboembolism,” the researchers explain. the The study was published in the journal “Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice” released.
A team around Carola Deischinger and Alexandra Kautzky Willer from the Gender Medicine Unit of the Medical University of Vienna and Elma Dervic from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) in Vienna analyzed the data on 45 million hospitalizations of more than seven million patients (including 180,034 diabetics) in Austria between 2003 and 2014. The medics found out that women with diabetes mellitus have a 1.5 times higher risk of developing venous thromboembolism than non-diabetic women.
“The effect is greatest in women between the ages of 50 and 59, where the risk is 1.65 times higher,” they wrote in a broadcast. In men, diabetes would also increase the risk of thrombosis, but comparatively “only” by a factor of 1.3.