A score has been derived by doctors here to assess the bleeding risk in Indian patients who are on drugs that prevent clotting of blood. The research by geneticists at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here focused on deriving and validating a Genetic Bleeding Risk (GBR) score based on genetic and non-genetic factors associated with bleeding in patients on long-term anti-coagulation (blood clotting) therapy a release said on Monday. There are already a few bleeding risk prediction scores available in the world but most are derived from the white population and more importantly none have evaluated the predictive significance of
