Venous thromboembolism after community-acquired bacteraemia: a 20-year danish cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Infections may increase the risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE), but little is known about VTE risk associated with community-acquired bacteraemia (CAB). We examined the risk for VTE within one year of CAB in comparison to that in matched controls.

Methods

We conducted a population-based cohort study in North Denmark 1992-2011, using data from high-quality health-care databases. We included 4,213 adult CAB patients who had positive blood cultures drawn on the day of hospital admission, 20,084 matched hospitalised controls admitted for other acute medical illness, and 41,121 matched controls from the general population. We computed 0-90 and 91-365 day absolute risks for hospital-diagnosed VTE and used regression analyses with adjustment for confounding factors to

SUBMITTER: Dalager-Pedersen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3900448 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature