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Genetic risk factors in patients with inflammatory bowel disease and vascular complications: case-control study.
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 Apr 2007
Koutroubakis I E, Sfiridaki A, Tsiolakidou G, Theodoropoulou A, Livadiotaki A, Paspatis G, Kouroumalis E A
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BACKGROUND: Inherited risk factors have been suggested to play an important role in the pathogenesis of vascular complications of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of mutations associated with cardiovascular disease in IBD patients with or without vascular complications compared with thrombotic and healthy controls (HC). METHODS: Twelve polymorphisms of...
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