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Prevalence and Associations of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Detected through Screening

DOI

897

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0

References

1997

Year

Frank A. Lederle, Gary R. Johnson, Samuel E. Wilson, Edmund P. Chute, Fred N. Littooy, Dennis F. Bandyk, William C. Krupski, Gary W. Barone, Charles W. Acher, David Ballard
Annals of Internal Medicine

Abstract

Abdominal aortic aneurysm is associated with multiple factors. Smoking was the risk factor most strongly associated with AAA and may be responsible for most clinically important cases of previously undiagnosed AAA.