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SUBMITTER: Folsom AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6499653 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Folsom Aaron R AR Tang Weihong W Basu Saonli S Misialek Jeffrey R JR Couper David D Heckbert Susan R SR Cushman Mary M
Thrombosis and haemostasis 20190219 5
The kallikrein/kinin system, an intravascular biochemical pathway that includes several proteins involved in the contact activation system of coagulation, renin-angiotensin activation and inflammation, may or may not play a role in venous thromboembolism (VTE) occurrence. Within a large prospective population-based study in the United States, we conducted a nested case-cohort study to test the hypothesis that higher plasma levels of high molecular weight kininogen (HK) or prekallikrein are assoc ...[more]