March 27, 2000Archives of Internal Medicine
Risk Factors for Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
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Implication
Supports inclusion of listed conditions in VTE risk models; leaves open need for prospective validation in contemporary cohorts.
Key Points
- The research aims to identify independent risk factors associated with deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE).
- Conducted an observational study of patients in hospital or nursing home settings.
- Identified various potential risk factors for VTE.
- Analyzed associations between risk factors like surgery, trauma, and cancer.
- Hospital confinement and surgery significantly increase VTE risk.
- Chemotherapy and central venous catheters are notable risk factors.
- Patients with neurologic disease and varicose veins also show elevated risk.
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Outcome
Venous thromboembolism (Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism)hard clinical
Multiple clinical conditions including hospitalization, surgery, trauma, and malignancy are independent risk factors for venous thromboembolism.
Cite This Study
Heit et al. (2000) studied this question.