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Are Prothrombotic Mutations a Time-to-Event Risk Factor?
Laboratory medicine - 8 Nov 2017
Tomic Branko V, Gvozdenov Maja Z, Pruner Iva B, Simic Jelena M, Kovac Mirjana K, Radojkovic Dragica P, Djordjevic Valentina J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) represents a common disorder involving genetic and acquired risk factors. It has been proposed that acquired risk factors are more important with aging than genetic factors, indicating different prevalence of prothrombotic mutations throughout the lifespan. OBJECTIVE: To determine the role of the most frequent prothrombotic genetic risk factors (Factor V [FV] Leiden and...
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