BACKGROUND: About 2-5% of people experience deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) during theirrnlives. Death, disease recurrence, post-thrombotic syndrome, and excessive bleeding due torncoagulant medications are among the most important DVT complications. Recent research foundrna high incidence of DVT recurrence after the first attack. Disease recurrence has a multifactorialrnpathogenesis and its probability is related with the number and severity of risk factors. Thernpresent study aimed to investigate DVT recurrence and the associated risk factors.rnMethod This retrospective cross-sectional study evaluated all DVT patients hospitalized inrnTekur Anbessa hospital emergency department during April 2009 to April 2012. The risk factorsrnwere obtained from patients' records including smoking, intravenous drug abuse, coagulopathyrndisorder having a history of surgery, history of cardiac disease, cancer, immobilization andrntrauma. A standardized structured questioner composed of closed-ended questions was used torncollect the data and it was adopted from a study Marianne Tang Severinsen on their PhD thesis.rnThe questionnaire is compose of closed ended question, mostly composed of tables and some yesrnand no question.rnResults A total number of 532 DVT patients were hospitalized in Taker Anbesa HospitalrnEmergency department during the study period. It was only possible to extract the data from 130rnpatient records. A history of recurrent DVT was reported in 30 individuals (23%). Therncomparison between the risk factors in patients with a first time DVT and those experiencing arnrecurrent DVT revealed significant differences solely in the prevalence of blood disorders.rnApplying stepwise regression indicated coagulopathy (OR: 5.389; 95% CI: 0.004-0.761; P