Venous thrombosis: prevalence and interaction of risk factors.

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The key to understanding why certain individuals develop deep vein thrombosis at varying times, despite similar risk factors being present, is the realization of the importance of gene-gene and gene-environment interactions between risk factors. The discovery of factor V Leiden and several other coagulation abnormalities, which are now known to be common in the general population, has revolutionized the way in...

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