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Risk factors for venous thromboembolic disease.
| Obesity |
| Family or personal history of VTE |
| Active cancer |
| Pregnancy/Puerperium/Estrogen replacement therapies |
| Recent history (<1 month) of: Major surgery Immobilization (≥3 days) due to acute medical illness |
| Hereditary thrombophilia (factor V Leiden, prothrombin G20210A mutation, protein C, S or antithrombin III deficiencies) or acquired (antiphospholipid syndrome). |
