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Epidemiology and Demographics

Prevalence of various inherited thrombophilias and their clinical impact

Disorder Healthy subjects/General population (%) Patients with known thrombosis (%) Estimated increase in thrombosis risk
Antithrombin deficiency 0.02 1 - 4 10 - 20X
Dysfibrinogenemia <1 <1 Variable
Protein C deficiency 0.2 - 0.4 3 - 5 10X
Protein S deficiency 0.3 - 0.13 2 - 4 10X
Factor V Leiden 1 - 15 18 - 40 5X
G20210A prothrombin gene mutation 2 - 5 7 - 16 3X
Hyperhomocystenemia 5 10 3X
Elevated factor VIII levels 11 25 5X

The table has been adapted from Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol. 2003 Jun;17(3):397-411[1] and data has been obtained from references[2][3][4].

References

  1. Buchanan GS, Rodgers GM, Ware Branch D (2003). "The inherited thrombophilias: genetics, epidemiology, and laboratory evaluation". Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol. 17 (3): 397–411. PMID 12787534. Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  2. Seligsohn U, Lubetsky A (2001). "Genetic susceptibility to venous thrombosis". N. Engl. J. Med. 344 (16): 1222–31. doi:10.1056/NEJM200104193441607. PMID 11309638. Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  3. Franco RF, Reitsma PH (2001). "Genetic risk factors of venous thrombosis". Hum. Genet. 109 (4): 369–84. doi:10.1007/s004390100593. PMID 11702218. Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  4. Haverkate F, Samama M (1995). "Familial dysfibrinogenemia and thrombophilia. Report on a study of the SSC Subcommittee on Fibrinogen". Thromb. Haemost. 73 (1): 151–61. PMID 7740487. Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

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