Overweight, obesity, and the risk of recurrent venous thromboembolism

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1678-1683

  Eichinger, Sabine ^a   Hron, Gregor ^a   Bialonczyk, Christine ^b   Hirschl, Mirko ^b   Minar, Erich ^a   Wagner, Oswald ^a   Heinze, Georg ^a   Kyrle, Paul A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Wilhelminenspital ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5 LEIDEN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; PROTHROMBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTICOAGULANTS; AUSTRIA; BLOOD COAGULATION FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 49449113799     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.168.15.1678     Document Type: Article

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