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Risk of venous thrombosis: obesity and its joint effect with oral contraceptive use and prothrombotic mutations.
British journal of haematology - 1 Oct 2007
Pomp Elisabeth R, le Cessie Saskia, Rosendaal Frits R, Doggen Carine J M
Abstract excerpt
In the Multiple Environmental and Genetic Assessment of risk factors for venous thrombosis (MEGA study), body weight, height and body mass index (BMI) were evaluated as risk factors. Additionally, the joint effect of obesity together with oral contraceptive use and prothrombotic mutations on the risk of venous thrombosis were analysed. Three-thousand eight-hundred and thirty-four patients with a first venous...
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