To cover the war for NBC news, when 39 years old David Bloom went to Iraq in 2003, his wife was naturally worried about his safety. But it was blood clot that stuck in his lungs instead of bullet, or bomb to end his life.
After sometime Ms. Bloom came to know that her husband had a genetic deformity: factor V Leiden (to be pronounced as factor five) that greatly increased his risk to develop that blood clots.
An out of sight Problem
In the U.S, factor V Leiden is one of the most common hereditary clotting disorders that is found in 2 to 7 percent of white-skinned, in few Hispanics and seldom in Asians and African-Americans.
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