Smoking and abdominal obesity: Risk factors for venous thromboembolism among middle-aged men: 'The study of men born in 1913'

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 1886-1890

  Hansson, Per Olof ^a   Eriksson, Henry ^a   Welin, Lennart ^a   Svärdsudd, Kurt ^b   Wilhelmsen, Lars ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SWEDEN; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0033552139     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.159.16.1886     Document Type: Article

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