Shin SH, et al. - In retrospective cohort study of cancer patients with newly diagnosed pulmonary embolism (PE) at a university hospital, researchers assessed the association of airflow limitation and venous thromboembolism (VTE) recurrence. VTE recurrence was defined as a composite of recurrence as PE or deep vein thrombosis or both. They noted that the risk of VTE recurrence in this patient population was not increased by the presence of airflow limitation. They also found that symptomatic PE was present in less than half of the cases, and 62.6% of patients were treated for PE.