Potential risk factors and incidence of pulmonary thromboembolism in Japan: Results from an overview of mailed questionnaires and a matched case-control study

Circulation Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 542-547

  Sugimura, Koichiro ^a   Sakuma, Masahito ^a   Shirato, Kunio ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Cancer; Immobilization; Pulmonary thromboembolism; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMMOBILIZATION; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33646118477     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.70.542     Document Type: Article

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