There is a striking evidence that with the immense escalation of the medical treatment elevating the general physique of common people at large there has also been a rising in the number of diseases, that were unknown even in the past decades. Take for example, Venous thrombosis, popularly known as VTE. It is a disease that relates to the formation of blood clots in a vein posing a great threat or health problem in respect of the very patients who remain hospitalized in the United States. So what s this disease in its entirety stands for? It has been found that the VTE possess enough potential in leading towards deep vein thrombosis or DVT, a distinctive syndrome that do happen in the legs. It also originates the pulmonary embolism or PE, which becomes evident with the slow but steady migration of a piece of the blood clot into an artery of the lungs. From an extensive research, it has come to the knowledge, that the ailment of PE accounts to10 percent of sudden in-hospital deaths. Moreover in the long term, the VTE has also the probability to move towards post-thrombotic syndrome or PTS, which are easily identified with the occurrence of consistent leg pain, swelling, and cramps, or pulmonary hypertension. However, it is to b note in this respect, that these serious crises can be tackled through the adoption of preventive strategies from compression boots to anti-clotting medications.

It is in this regard, to bring to the fore the general nature of the entire problem and to make the people conscious a group of distinguished researchers researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in the recent days had gone through a definite methodology regarding the assessment of the total number of patients who tend to be at great risk for VTE. From the researchers, there is an estimation that there is a need for the strengthening of the establishment of national guidelines for the identification of the very patients who are at risk for VTE. It has come to the knowledge, that for the very assessment Dr. Frederick Anderson, the most prominent author of the investigative study along with his colleagues utilized the decisive factors as defined by the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), that have been available for the 15 years at stretch. According to them, with the application of the ACCP criteria for VTE risk to the surgical patients, 44 percent were considered low risk and would not have been candidates for preventative measures.

While speaking on this Dr. Frederick Anderson said,   "Our findings suggest that each year, almost one-third of hospitalized patients are at risk of VTE." "This highlights the magnitude of the US public health risk posed by this potentially preventable condition," he concluded.