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Risk Factors

• Smoking
• Patients with medical history of Raynaud's disease or autoimmune diseases
• Race: Buerger disease is relatively more common in people of natives of India, Korea, and Japan, and Israeli Jews of Ashkenazi descent.
• Gender: Buerger disease is as 3 times as common in males than in female.
• Age between 20~45 years