The public health burden of venous thromboembolism, which includes deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, is not fully known, and contemporary incidence and mortality estimates are needed. We determined the incidence and case fatality of venous thromboembolism in a general population.Using the administrative health care databases of the Canadian province of Québec, we identified all incident cases of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism between 2000 and 2009 and classified them as definite or probable venous thromboembolism. We formed 2 patient cohorts, one with definite cases and the other including cases with definite or probable venous thromboembolism that were followed until December 31, 2009.We identified 67,354 definite and 35,123 probable cases of venous thromboembolism. The age- and sex-adjusted incidence rates of definite or probable venous thromboembolism, deep vein thrombosis, and pulmonary embolism were 1.22 (95

作者：Vicky, Tagalakis；Valérie, Patenaude；Susan R, Kahn；Samy, Suissa

来源：The American journal of medicine 2013 年 126卷 9期