Travel-Associated Illnesses
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• Travel and thrombosis are associated. Four case-control studies [1-4] and five cohort and randomized controlled studies [5-9] have clearly established that thrombosis is associated with travel. In the four case-control studies, 11.8% of patients with venous thromboembolism had a history of recent travel, by air or other means of transportation, compared to 6.3% of controls with an odds ratio ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0141-0768,1758-1095
DOI: 10.1177/014107688808100502