Venous thromboembolism (VTE) includes two clinical pictures: deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary artery embolism, the latter being a dangerous complication of thrombosis.
Typically, the risk of developing venous thromboembolism (VTE) is about the same in men and women.
Diabetes, a chronic disease that affects over eight percent of the world’s population, is known to be a risk factor for VTE.
In a study from the Complexity Science Hub and MedUni Vienna, scientists found evidence that women with diabetes are at higher risk of VTE than men.
The team analyzed 180,034 patients with diabetes. In total, massive amounts of data from around 45 million hospitalizations and 7,239,710 patients in Austria between 2003 and 2014 were examined.
Their analyses show for the first time that diabet3s might be linked to VTE to a greater extent in women than in men.
The risk of women with diabetes also suffering from VTE is 1.52 times higher than for women without DM. For men, in contrast, the risk is only 1.3 times higher.
The findings suggest that women with diabetes mellitus should be monitored more carefully for the development of VTE, especially during their perimenopause.
The team says this shows once again that the biological advantage of women—especially for vascular complications in the case of diabetes—is dwindling and their risk increases further with the drop in estrogen in menopause.
Even more reason for intensive treatment of all risk factors at a younger age.
The researchers suggest that to be able to record this gender-specific correlation between DM and VTE in even greater detail, analyses are needed that investigate the causes of the relative increase in risk.
This would be an important step towards the prevention of VTE in patients with DM, especially if they are women.
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The study was conducted by Elma Dervic et al and published in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice.
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