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Cardiovascular medicine
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Severe varicose veins and the risk of mortality: a nationwide population-based cohort study

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  • Nan-Chun Wu Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, TaiwanDepartment of Hospital and Health Care Administration, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Rende, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Zhih-Cherng Chen Department of Cardiology, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, TaiwanDepartment of Pharmacy, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Rende, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • I-Jung Feng Department of Healthcare Administration and Medical Informatics, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Chung-Han Ho Department of Healthcare Administration and Medical Informatics, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Chun-Yen Chiang Department of Cardiology, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, TaiwanDepartment of Pharmacy, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Rende, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jhi-Joung Wang Medical Research, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Wei-Ting Chang Department of Cardiology, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, TaiwanDepartment of Biotechnology, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan, TaiwanInstitute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Wei-Ting Chang; cmcvecho2{at}gmail.com
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Wu N, Chen Z, Feng I, et al
Severe varicose veins and the risk of mortality: a nationwide population-based cohort study
BMJ Open 2020;10:e034245. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034245

Publication history

  • Received September 12, 2019
  • Revised February 28, 2020
  • Accepted April 23, 2020
  • First published June 21, 2020.
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April 12, 2022
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