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Tobacco smoking strongly modifies the association of prothrombin G20210A with undetermined stroke: consecutive survivors and population-based controls.
Atherosclerosis - 1 Jun 2015
Krajcoviechova A, Wohlfahrt P, Mayer O, Vanek J, Hajkova J, Hlinovsky D, Kvasnicka T, Tremblay J, Hamet P, Filipovsky J, Kvasnicka J, Cifkova R
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OBJECTIVE: Due to contradictory results of previous studies evaluating the association between ischemic stroke (IS) and thrombophilic polymorphisms, their routine screening in IS patients, particularly those older than 60 years, is not recommended. We evaluated the differences in the distribution of rs6025 and rs1799963 polymorphisms according to IS subtypes and their interaction with smoking. METHODS: We...
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