Wanted global efforts behind World Thrombosis Day campaign

has committed to serve as an official Global Partner for its World Thrombosis Day campaign.

Thrombosis is the formation or presence of a blood clot in a blood vessel. The vessel may be any vein or artery for example in a deep vein thrombosis or a coronary (artery) thrombosis. The clot itself is termed a thrombus.

A year-long campaign recognised on 13 October, World Thrombosis Day focuses attention on the often overlooked and misunderstood condition of thrombosis. With thousands of educational events in more than 80 countries around the world, World Thrombosis Day and its partners place a global spotlight on thrombosis as an urgent and growing health problem. Together, the collaboration aims to reduce death and disability caused by thrombosis.

Given that worldwide, one in four people die from conditions caused by thrombosis, there is therefore a critical need for the global efforts behind the World Thrombosis Day campaign.
In its third year, the World Thrombosis Day campaign seeks to ensure that citizens of the world “Know Thrombosis” and understand the steps to take to “Keep Life Flowing.

” Based on a global survey conducted in nine countries among men and women, too few people know about thrombosis, specifically blood clots in the leg (deep vein thrombosis) and lungs (pulmonary embolism) and their life-threatening consequences.

The campaign urges people to: First, know the risk factors; Second, know the signs and symptoms; Third, be proactive and talk to a health care professional about risk and prevention of blood clots, especially if admitted to the hospital or having surgery.

Launched in 2014 and held annually on 13 October, World Thrombosis Day (WTD) aims to increase public, healthcare professional and health care systems’ awareness of thrombosis and ultimately to reduce deaths and disabilities from thromboembolic disease through a greater awareness of its causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and evidence-based prevention and treatment.

WTD’s mission supports the World Health Assembly's global target of reducing premature deaths by non-communicable disease by 25 percent by 2025, as well as the WHO global action plan for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in the 2013-2020 timeframe.

Founded in 1969, the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis ( ISTH) is the leading worldwide not-for-profit organisation dedicated to advancing the understanding, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of thrombotic and bleeding disorders.

ISTH is an international professional membership organisation with 4,000 clinicians, researchers and educators working together to improve the lives of patients in more than 93 countries around the world.

Among its highly regarded activities and initiatives are education and standardisation programmes such as its core curriculum, research activities, meetings and congresses, peer-reviewed publications, expert committees and World Thrombosis Day on 13 October.