Polymorphisms in the coagulation factor VII gene and the risk of myocardial infarction

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 338, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 79-85

  Iacoviello, Licia ^a,c   Di Castelnuovo, Augusto ^a   De Knijff, Peter ^c   D'Orazio, Andria ^a   Amore, Concetta ^a   Arboretti, Rosa ^b   Kluft, Cornelis ^c   Donati, Maria Benedetta ^a  

^a Angela Valenti Lab Thromb P   (Italy)

^b Leiden University ^*  (Italy)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD COAGULATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FACTOR VII; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0032495540     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199801083380202     Document Type: Article

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