Interaction between oral contraceptive use and coagulation factor levels in deep venous thrombosis.

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Deep venous thrombosis is a multicausal disease, i.e. more than one risk factor needs to be present to cause the disease. Oral contraceptive use increases the risk of venous thrombosis but since not all women using oral contraceptives develop thrombosis, the presence of additional risk factors in patients is likely. The aim of this study was to assess the joint effect of oral contraceptive use and the levels of...

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