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Familial Transmission of Hospital-Treated Varicose Veins in Adoptees: A Swedish Family Study.

Journal of the American College of Surgeons - 1 Sept 2016

Kohno Kunie, Niihara Hiroyuki, Li Xinjun, Hamano Tsuyoshi, Nabika Toru, Shiwaku Kuninori, Isomura Minoru, Morita Eishin, Sundquist Kristina, Zöller Bengt

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BACKGROUND: Varicose veins (VVs) cluster in families, but the familial risk of VVs has not been determined among adoptees. The aim was to estimate whether the familial transmission of VVs is related to disease in biological and/or adoptive parents. STUDY DESIGN: The Swedish Multi-Generation Register and the Swedish Patient Register were used to follow all Swedish-born adoptees (born 1932 through 2004) that could...

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PMID: 27346427
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2016.06.007

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