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Are You At Risk for Clots? | Features | CDC






Last Posted: Mar 15, 2018

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• Are you at risk for clots?
  A family history of blood clots can increase a person?s risk.
• Interaction of a genetic risk score with physical activity, physical inactivity, and body mass index in relation to venous thromboembolism risk.  
  Kim Jihye, et al. Genetic epidemiology 2018 3
• Bleeding predictors in patients following venous thromboembolism treated with vitamin K antagonists: Association with increased number of single nucleotide polymorphisms.  
  Bryk Agata Hanna, et al. Vascular pharmacology 2018 2
• High prevalence of factor V Leiden and prothrombin G20101A mutations in Kashmiri patients with venous thromboembolism.  
  Shafia Syed, et al. Gene 2018 2
• Fat mass and obesity-associated gene rs9939609 polymorphism is a potential biomarker of recurrent venous thromboembolism in male but not in female patients.  
  Ahmad Abrar, et al. Gene 2018 1
• Risk factors and prognosis value of venous thromboembolism in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer: a case-control study.  
  Shen Qian, et al. Journal of thoracic disease 2017 12 (12) 5068-5074

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