Cigarette Smoking Doubles the Risk of Myocardial Infarction in Carriers of a Protective Polymorphism in the Blood Coagulation Factor VII Gene

Licia Iacoviello; Augusto Di Castelnuovo; Andria D’Orazio; Maria Benedetta Donati

doi:10.1055/s-0037-1614542

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

Thromb Haemost 1999; 81(04): 658
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1614542

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Cigarette Smoking Doubles the Risk of Myocardial Infarction in Carriers of a Protective Polymorphism in the Blood Coagulation Factor VII Gene

Licia Iacoviello

¹From Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Unit of Genetics of Vascular Risk Factors, “Angela Valenti” Laboratory of Thrombosis Pharmacology, Department of Vascular Medicine and Pharmacology, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Santa Maria Imbaro, Italy

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Augusto Di Castelnuovo

¹From Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Unit of Genetics of Vascular Risk Factors, “Angela Valenti” Laboratory of Thrombosis Pharmacology, Department of Vascular Medicine and Pharmacology, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Santa Maria Imbaro, Italy

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Andria D’Orazio

¹From Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Unit of Genetics of Vascular Risk Factors, “Angela Valenti” Laboratory of Thrombosis Pharmacology, Department of Vascular Medicine and Pharmacology, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Santa Maria Imbaro, Italy

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Maria Benedetta Donati

¹From Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Unit of Genetics of Vascular Risk Factors, “Angela Valenti” Laboratory of Thrombosis Pharmacology, Department of Vascular Medicine and Pharmacology, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Santa Maria Imbaro, Italy

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