Risk of Blood Clots Is Higher than usual for the First Year After COVID-19, New Research Suggests

Your Risk of Blood Clots Is High for the First Year After You Have COVID-19, Study Suggests The risk is still rare, but it happens. Prevention

By now, most people are aware of the risk of developing long COVID after having COVID-19. But new research suggests the virus can ramp up your risk of developing blood clots—and that risk stays higher than normal for a year afterward.

That’s the main takeaway from a large new study published in the journal Circulation. The study analyzed data from 48 million people registered in Great Britain’s National Health System from January 2020 until the day before COVID-19 vaccines were made available in December 2020. The researchers found 1.4 million diagnoses of COVID-19 and, among those, 10,500 patients that developed blood clot-related issues.

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