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Volume 48, Issue 3 , Pages 680-687 , September 2008

Distribution and prevalence of reflux in the superficial and deep venous system in the general population – results from the Bonn Vein Study, Germany

Presented at the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the American Venous Forum, San Diego, Calif, Feb 14-17, 2007.

Uldis Maurins, MD
- Department of Surgery, Paula Stradina University Hospital of Riga, Riga, Latvia
Barbara H. Hoffmann, MD, MPH
- Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, Essen, Germany
Christian Lösch, Dipl Math
- Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, Essen, Germany
Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Prof Dr
- Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, Essen, Germany
Eberhard Rabe, Prof Dr
- Department of Dermatology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn, Germany
- Reprint requests: Eberhard Rabe, Prof Dr, Department of Dermatology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53105 Bonn Germany
Felicitas Pannier, Dr
- Department of Dermatology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn, Germany

Received 27 November 2007 ,Accepted 10 April 2008.

Distribution of prolonged reflux times in the superficial venous system for 3016 participants and a total of 17,984 measurements. 93.3% of all findings were below 500 ms.

Distribution of prolonged reflux times in the superficial venous system for 3016 participants and a total of 17,984 measurements. 93.3% of all findings were below 500 ms.
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Distribution of prolonged reflux times in the deep venous system for 3016 participants and a total of 18,063 measurements; 95.6% of all findings were below 500 ms.

Distribution of prolonged reflux times in the deep venous system for 3016 participants and a total of 18,063 measurements; 95.6% of all findings were below 500 ms.
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