Incident venous thromboembolic events in the Prospective Study of Pravastatin in the Elderly at Risk (PROSPER)

BACKGROUND: Venous thromboembolic events (VTE), including deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, are common in older age. It has been suggested that statins might reduce the risk of VTE however positive results from studies of middle aged subjects may not be generalisable to elderly people....

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Autores principales: Freeman, Dilys J, Robertson, Michele, Brown, E Ann, Rumley, Ann, Tobias, Edward S, Frölich, Marijke, Slagboom, P Eline, Jukema, J Wouter, de Craen, Anton JM, Sattar, Naveed, Ford, Ian, Gaw, Allan, Greer, Ian A, Lowe, Gordon DO, Stott, David J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3053238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21342490
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-11-8

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