[Comment] Autoimmune diseases and risk of pulmonary embolism
Source: The Lancet
In The Lancet, Bengt Zöller and colleagues have obtained data from the MigMed2 database (constructed from several national Swedish data registers) and report analyses to show that pulmonary embolism is a serious problem in patients with autoimmune disease. The investigators’ conclusion that autoimmune disorders should be regarded as hypercoagulable is well validated in their study.