Asthma itself is a nasty condition to have. It’s chronic and it changes the way you’ll have to live your life in that you’ll need to carry an inhaler at all times or risk death at the hands of an asthmatic attack. In the times before such treatment became available, asthma was much more dangerous but now, with a little pre-planning and some extra time taken, you can live a normal life.
A worrying thing about the more severe varieties of asthma is that, unlike their less severe counterparts, can lead to further complications and other much nastier conditions. One of these would have to be the pulmonary embolism which is a blood clot which has generally broken off from arterial plaque in the leg and has caused a blockage in the lungs. Obviously a blockage anywhere can be dangerous but when it forms in one of the more important organs in our body serious issues can occur and eventually lead to death.
In several studies the connection between pulmonary embolism and severe asthma has been shown. The link isn’t fully understood yet but the amount of evidence behind this correlation is constantly growing as more and more studies show the same results. What this means for sufferers of severe asthma is a better chance at avoiding the embolism in the first place. Every condition which is treated in hospitals to this day is much easier to prevent, cure or otherwise get rid of if you catch it early enough. Cancer, diabetes and heart disease are all much less damaging and have a much higher survival rate if you diagnose and treat as early as you can. Doctors now know that severe asthmatics are in a high risk grouping and as such they can make preparations for the pulmonary embolism.
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