Do stockings reduce the risk of DVT? No!
About 10% of patients treated with stockings developed proximal (above knee) DVTs. This was the same proportion as in the group without stockings.
CLOTS 1 – 30 day venous thromboembolism (VTE) outcomes
The differences in the % of patients developing a DVT or PE in the two groups were very small. This difference could easily have been due to chance. NS refers to ‘Not significant’ which reflects that the differences between the groups could be explained by chance alone.’
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