Secular Trends in Incidence and Mortality of Acute Venous Thromboembolism: The AB-VTE Population-Based Study

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 879.e19-879.e25

  Alotaibi, Ghazi S ^a   Wu, Cynthia ^a   Senthilselvan, Ambikaipakan ^a   McMurtry, M Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

AB VTE; Case fatality; Deep vein thrombosis; Epidemiology; Pulmonary embolism; Vein thrombosis; VTE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANADA; CASE FATALITY RATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TREND STUDY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ALBERTA; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALBERTA; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84964334536     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.01.041     Document Type: Article

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