A recent study has revealed that obese men with tall height are at a higher risk of getting affected by blood clots. Apparently, the study only considered 26,000 people from the age of 25 to 97 from a town of Norway making the scope of the study limited to the periphery of Norway.

If report of the American Heart Association is considered, over 275,000 individuals are being treated for deep vein clots or pulmonary embolism in the USA.

The team of researchers from the University of Tromso in Norway is of the view that people with high height are more at the risk of developing clots in lower limbs escalating the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE).

Responding to the study, Sigrid K. Braekkan, Ph. D., from the Hematological Research Group at the University of Tromsø, Norway, claimed that the study has significant proof that men are more susceptible of VTF as compared to women.

Moreover, the study highlighted that risk of VTF in obese, tall people was reported to be five times more than that of shorter, normal-weight people after factoring gender, height, and weight. Further, Braekkan claimed, ''The present study is the first to investigate the joint effects of obesity and height on the risk of venous clots".