For male patients who strongly prefer to stop anticoagulation for unprovoked VTE, are there any tools or labs that you would use to guide your decision making?

This is a challenging situation as one of the more useful tools to predict risk of recurrence after unprovoked VTE, the HERDOO2 rule, suggests that even with an otherwise "perfect" score, men have a high enough risk of recurrence to recommend ongoing anticoagulation. As such, and given the generally...