Journal of vascular surgery
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Comparative Study
Thromboembolic complications of polycythemia: polycythemia vera versus smokers' polycythemia.
This report compares patients with the hypercoagulable state of polycythemia vera to patients with secondary polycythemia caused by tobacco use to determine whether the incidence of thromboembolic events is equivalent. ⋯ Thus the results of this study demonstrate that smokers' polycythemia does not represent a hypercoagulable state equivalent to that of polycythemia vera.