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Carbon monoxide poisoning and risk for venous thromboembolism
  1. Neil B Hampson1,
  2. Lindell K Weaver2
  1. 1 Department of Medicine, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
  2. 2 Department of Medicine, Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Neil B Hampson, Department of Medicine, Virginia Mason Medical Center, 1100 Ninth Avenue H4-CHM, Seattle, WA 98111-0900, USA; neil.hampson{at}vmmc.org

https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2016-207172

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    As specialists in carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, we noted with interest the paper in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health this year by Kao and colleagues examining the diagnosis of other diseases following an episode of CO poisoning.1 It described a retrospective, population-based, cohort study utilising the Taiwanese National Health Insurance Database. In essence, patients experiencing CO poisoning during a 13-year period were identified, matched to controls, and the database searched for subsequent new diagnoses that occurred in the CO-poisoned population in …

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    • Contributors NBH participated in the writing and revision of the initial draft. LKW participated in the revision of the initial draft.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.