African-Americans have a higher rate of proximal deep vein thrombosis at presentation

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Buckner, Tyler W ^a   Amin, Chirag ^a   Esserman, Denise A ^a   Key, Nigel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DATA BASE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ETHNICITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY; LEG PAIN; LEG SWELLING; LETTER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEOPLASM; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGERY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; ODDS RATIO; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 77956266926     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2010.04.009     Document Type: Letter

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