A prospective registry of 5,451 patients with ultrasound-confirmed deep vein thrombosis

Am J Cardiol. 2004 Jan 15;93(2):259-62. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2003.09.057.

Abstract

We enrolled 5,451 patients with ultrasound-confirmed deep vein thrombosis (DVT), including 2,892 women and 2,559 men, from 183 United States sites in our prospective registry. The 5 most frequent co-morbidities were hypertension (50%), surgery within 3 months (38%), immobility within 30 days (34%), cancer (32%), and obesity (27%). Of the 2,726 patients who had their DVT diagnosed while in the hospital, only 1,147 (42%) received prophylaxis within 30 days before diagnosis.

Publication types

  • Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

  • Comorbidity
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypertension / epidemiology
  • Immobilization / adverse effects
  • Inpatients / statistics & numerical data
  • Length of Stay / statistics & numerical data
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Obesity / epidemiology
  • Outpatients / statistics & numerical data
  • Prospective Studies
  • Registries / statistics & numerical data*
  • Risk Factors
  • Surgical Procedures, Operative
  • Ultrasonography
  • United States / epidemiology
  • Venous Thrombosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Venous Thrombosis / epidemiology*