Abstract: . . .  set up the Aviation Health Working Group to oversee this research and to provide advice to air travellers and the airline industry. The group will help to ensure that further research ties in with that being developed by the World Health Organisation, supported by the aviation industry. 24. Further information on travel related DVT Advice on travel related DVT: This advice is also available on the Internet at www.doh.gov.uk/dvt or www.doh.gov.uk clicking on the public health icon. Health Advice to Travellers:This booklet (T6) is available free from the Health Literature Line on 0800 555 777. It also contains an application for an E111 form, which is required for free . . .
. . .  a pulmonary embolus or PE. When PE is severe it causes the lungs to collapse and heart failure. Treatment of DVT and PE is with blood- thinning drugs or anticoagulants, including warfarin and heparin. Aspirin Page 2 in low doses also acts as a blood thinning drug and is used to prevent clotting conditions in the arteries like coronary thrombosis . Its benefit in preventing DVT is debatable. DVT combined with PE or other blood clots is often referred to as Venous Thrombo-Embolism or VTE. Who is at risk of DVT? 6. Every year DVT occurs in about 1 in 2000 people in the general population, ranging from less than 1 in 3000 in people under the age of 40 up to 1 in 500 in those over . . .
. . .  is available from NHS Direct Online at www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk Foreign and Commonwealth Office: www.fco.gov.uk/knowbeforeyougo 25. Other publications: 1. House of Lords Session 1999-2000: 5 th report: Select Committee on Science and Technology Air Travel and Health 15 th November 2000 2. Thrombosis and Air Travel: Paul Giangrande Journal of Travel Medicine Vol., 7 pp 149-154. 2000 3. Most airline leaflets and in-flight information.  . . .
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