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. 2017 Oct 26;359:j4452. doi: 10.1136/bmj.j4452

Table 2.

Absolute risks (AR) of pregnancy associated venous thromboembolism (VTE) for each thrombophilia, for family and non-family cohort studies

Thrombophilia No of studies No of women with thrombophilia with VTE/Total No of VTE events with information on time of occurrence/Total AR of VTE, all studies, % pregnancies (95% CrI) % probability of AR >1%, for all studies % probability of AR >3%, for all studies High quality studies
Antepartum and post partum Antepartum Post partum Antepartum Post partum Antepartum Post partum No No of women with thrombophilia with VTE/Total AR of VTE, antepartum and post partum, % pregnancies (95% CrI)
Antithrombin deficiency:
 Family 4 23/125 23/23 16.6 (0.0 to 45.1) 7.3 (1.8 to 15.6) 11.1 (3.7 to 21.0) 100 100 96 99 3 13/105 10.5 (0.0 to 30.3)
Protein C deficiency:
 Family 3 10/137 10/10 7.8 (0.0 to 33.8) 3.2 (0.6 to 8.2) 5.4 (0.9 to 13.8) 96 99 54 83 2 4/123 2.6 (0.0 to 13.5)
Protein S deficiency:
 Family 3 7/135 7/7 4.8 (0.0 to 20.0) 0.9 (0.0 to 3.7) 4.2 (0.7 to 9.4) 47 98 9 73 2 6/130 3.6 (0.0 to 37.0)
Heterozygous factor V Leiden mutation:
 Overall 17 45/3031 37/45 1.1 (0.3 to 1.9)* 0.4 (0.1 to 0.9) 2.0 (0.9 to 3.7) 2 97 0 11 13 43/2604 1.3 (0.5 to 2.2)
 Family 8 35/1359 34/35 2.4 (0.9 to 4.4) 0.4 (0.0 to 0.9) 2.5 (1.2 to 4.4) 3 100 0 25 6 33/1291 2.4 (0.6 to 5.4)
 Non-family 9 10/1672 3/10 0.4 (0.0 to 0.9) 0.7 (0.0 to 2.6) 0.4 (0.0 to 1.8) 31 15 4 2 7 10/1313 0.6 (0.0 to 1.2)
Homozygous factor V Leiden mutation:
 Overall 6 5/58 5/5 6.2 (0.0 to 18.0) 2.8 (0.0 to 8.6) 2.8 (0.0 to 8.8) 86 85 47 46 5 5/56 7.9 (0.4 to 23.0)
 Family 3 4/35 4/4 8.3 (0.0 to 29.6) NA NA NA NA NA NA 2 4/33 9.9 (0.0 to 39.7)
 Non-family 3 1/23 1/1 5.6 (0.0 to 34.3) NA NA NA NA NA NA 3 1/23 5.6 (0.0 to 34.3)
Heterozygous prothrombin G20210A mutation:
 Overall 5 14/1322 9/14 0.9 (0.2 to 2.0) 0.0 (0.0 to 0.2) 0.9 (0.2 to 2.0) 0 41 0 1 5 14/1322 0.9 (0.2 to 2.0)
 Family 4 11/998 9/11 1.0 (0.0 to 2.5) NA NA NA NA NA NA 4 11/998 1.0 (0.0 to 2.5)
 Non-family 1 3/324 0/3 0.8 (0.1 to 2.0) NA NA NA NA NA NA 1 3/324 0.8 (0.1 to 2.0)
Compound heterozygous factor V Leiden and prothrombin G20210A mutation:
 Family 3 5/199 3/5 2.5 (0.0 to 9.5) NA NA NA NA NA NA 3 5/199 2.5 (0.0 to 9.5)
Non-carriers, overall:
 Family 13 14/2330 13/14 0.5 (0.2 to 1.0) NA NA NA NA NA NA 12 12/2293 0.4 (0.1 to 0.8)
 Non-family 9 20/31245 9/20 0.1 (0.0 to 0.1) NA NA NA NA NA NA 7 18/30791 0.1 (0.0 to 0.1)

Analyses shown are meta-analyses of absolute risks of all studies, including absolute risk of antepartum VTE and postpartum VTE, and meta-analyses of high quality studies (NOS score ≥8) only. The probability of absolute risks of pregnancy associated VTE being above the treatment thresholds of 1% and 3% are also shown.
CrI=credible interval, NOS=Newcastle-Ottawa scale, NA=not available.
*Significant effect of family studies as compared with non-family studies.