Blood Clots and Long Flights from Singapore: What the Evidence Says About Travel Risk, and What Actually Helps

Reviewed by Dr Edgar Tay, interventional cardiologist and structural heart specialist at Asian Heart & Vascular Centre. Last reviewed September 2026. Reading time: about 10 minutes. TL;DR Long flights do raise the risk of a blood clot, and the honest version of that sentence needs both halves of the arithmetic. Relative to not travelling, the […]
Blood Clots in the Leg and Lung: How DVT and Pulmonary Embolism Are Diagnosed and Treated in Singapore

Reviewed by Dr Edgar Tay, interventional cardiologist and structural heart specialist at Asian Heart & Vascular Centre. Last reviewed September 2026. Reading time: about 11 minutes. TL;DR A clot in a deep leg vein (deep vein thrombosis, or DVT) and a clot in the lung circulation (pulmonary embolism, or PE) are two presentations of one […]