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Case Study: Response For Tanisha

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Response for Tanisha,

I enjoyed reading your informative post. There are several risk factors that predispose anyone to develop DVT/PE such as age, obesity, infection, immobilization, hormone therapy, tobacco use, pregnancy, air travel, hospitalization and surgery in particular. As you well articulated in your post , the 44-year-old African American male patient had surgical procedure which is obviously one of the risk factor to developing DVT/ PE and having a cancer tumor makes the tendency of blood clot even worse. The other important risk factor that you haven't mentioned in your post is that for reasons that are not unknown, DVT/ PE disproportionately affect African American "African American men and women have a 30% higher chance

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