Background and objectives Acute triggers for VTE, which may include infection, are
understudied, as is the timing and duration of VTE risk after infection. We hypothesized that
there is an association between hospitalization with infection and short-term VTE risk that
exceeds the known association between hospitalization and VTE. Methods VTE cases and
infections were identified in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) cohort. A case-
crossover design and conditional logistic regression were used to compare hospitalized …