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Does having asthma put you at an increased risk for pulmonary embolism? or unrelated?
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Unrelated but: If your asthma is severe enough to keep you bedridden for a long time, then you would be at risk for pulmonary embolism from the immobility not from the asthma.
Answered 4/23/2015
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