Patients With Type 3 Severe von Willebrand Disease Are Not Protected Against Atherosclerosis
- 17 February 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Circulation
- Vol. 109 (6), 740-744
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.0000112567.53841.10
Abstract
Background— The results of a number of studies in pigs and mice suggest that absence of von Willebrand factor (vWF) protects against the development of atherosclerosis. We studied whether patients ...Keywords
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