RESEARCH ARTICLE

Obesity is not associated with recurrent venous thromboembolism in elderly patients: Results from the prospective SWITCO65+ cohort study Carolin Mueller1*, Andreas Limacher2, Marie Me´an1,3, Nicolas Rodondi1,4, Drahomir Aujesky1

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1 Department of General Internal Medicine, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 2 CTU Bern, Department of Clinical Research, and Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 3 Department of General Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland, 4 Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland * [email protected]

OPEN ACCESS Citation: Mueller C, Limacher A, Me´an M, Rodondi N, Aujesky D (2017) Obesity is not associated with recurrent venous thromboembolism in elderly patients: Results from the prospective SWITCO65+ cohort study. PLoS ONE 12(9): e0184868. https:// doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184868 Editor: Hugo ten Cate, Maastricht University Medical Center, NETHERLANDS Received: March 10, 2017 Accepted: September 3, 2017 Published: September 15, 2017 Copyright: © 2017 Mueller et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: Our datasets are available as an open access item with a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY) at the Bern Open Repository (BORIS): http://boris.unibe.ch/id/ eprint/101242. Funding: This work was supported by a grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation (no. 33CSCO-122659/139470). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Abstract Background Whether obesity is associated with recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE) in elderly patients is unknown.

Objectives To examine the association between two obesity measures, the body mass index (BMI) and the waist circumference (WC), and recurrent VTE in elderly patients.

Patients/Methods We studied 986 patients aged 65 years with an acute VTE from a prospective multicenter cohort study (09/2009-12/2013). The BMI was determined and categorized as

Obesity is not associated with recurrent venous thromboembolism in elderly patients: Results from the prospective SWITCO65+ cohort study.

Whether obesity is associated with recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE) in elderly patients is unknown...
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