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How do you reduce your risks of getting dvt? i have no family history or risk factors besidesa few extra lbs.
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EXERCIZE: Mobility, weight control, and check family history for bleeding- clotting disorders. Trauma, surgery, cancer, hypercoagulability, immobility are risk factors.
Answered 1/23/2014
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