Factor V Leiden thrombophilia is an inherited blood clotting disorder that can lead to blood clots in the legs, lungs, or other parts of the body. Medical term: Thrombophilia is a condition where ...

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During pregnancy an inherited predisposition to thromboembolic events has been associated with a number of adverse pregnancy outcomes such as fetal loss and pre-eclampsia. 9,10 The central mechanism ...

Women with breast cancer assigned tamoxifen who experienced a thromboembolic event were five times more likely to carry the Factor V Leiden mutation when compared with matched controls taking ...

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Background: ABO blood type locus has been reported to be an important genetic determinant of venous and arterial thrombosis in genome-wide association studies. We tested the hypothesis that ABO blood ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Background. The effect of the coagulation factor V Leiden mutation on infectious disease susceptibility and outcome is controversial. Methods.

Dear Dr. Roach: My son was recently diagnosed with factor V Leiden. He has had heart issues since he was 12 (chest pain, irregular EKGs with no explanation and intermittent irregular heart rate). He ...

Nevertheless, the attributable risk associated with genes that have a moderate effect on disease, that is, the fraction of the disease risk caused by the allelic variation in this gene, may be ...

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Dear Dr. Roach: My son was recently diagnosed with factor V Leiden. He has had heart issues since he was 12 (chest pain, irregular EKGs with no explanation and intermittent irregular heart rate). He ...

Factor V Leiden thrombophilia is an inherited blood clotting disorder that can lead to blood clots in the legs, lungs, or other parts of the body. Medical term: Thrombophilia is a condition where ...