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Use of glucocorticoids and risk of venous thromboembolism
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  1. Eva Wikström Jonsson
  1. Correspondence to Dr Eva Wikström Jonsson, Clinical Pharmacology Unit L7:03, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm SE-17176, Sweden; eva.wikstrom-jonsson{at}ki.se

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-204440

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    In this Danish population-based case-control study, the association between use of glucocorticoids and risk of venous thromboembolism was studied.

    The study included 38 765 cases of venous thromboembolism and 387 650 age-matched and sex-matched controls. Conditional logistic regression, adjusted for risk factors for venous thromboembolism, was used to estimate incidence rate ratios (IRR) and 95% CI …

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