Population
377 Japanese patients enrolled between January 1994 and October 1997 across 26 clinical centers.
Design
Cohort, unblinded
Authors
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Supports regional differences in CPTE incidence and risk factors; hypothesis-generating for pathogenesis variation between Asian and Western populations.
The incidence of chronic pulmonary thromboembolism relative to acute pulmonary thromboembolism in Japan is higher than in the United States, and differences in predisposing factors suggest the pathogenesis of CPTE in Japan may differ from Western populations.
Nakamura et al. (2002) studied this question.
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