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Differential propensity for major hemorrhagic events in patients with different types of arterial disease.
Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH - 1 Sept 2011
Achterberg S, Visseren F L J, Kappelle L J, Pruissen D M O, Van Der Graaf Y, Algra A
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AIMS: Atherosclerosis is the most frequent cause of coronary artery disease (CAD), cerebrovascular disease (CVD), and peripheral arterial obstructive disease (PAD). We previously found that patients with CVD or PAD had a two-fold higher risk of major hemorrhagic complications than patients with CAD. We investigated whether this difference was attributable to baseline risk factors or genetic variants involved in...
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