Abdominal aortic aneurysms : diagnosis and epidemiology : the Tromsø Study
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a relatively common, potentially life-threatening condition roughly accounting for one percent of all the deaths in the western world. Abdominal aortic aneurysms are usually asymptomatic until rupture. Death from rupture is often sudden and the disease is prone to...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/26311 2023-05-15T18:34:20+02:00 Abdominal aortic aneurysms : diagnosis and epidemiology : the Tromsø Study Singh, Kulbir 2005 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/26311 eng eng Universitetet i Tromsø University of Tromsø ISM skriftserie Nr. 80, 2005 990511922254702201 0801-017x https://hdl.handle.net/10037/26311 openAccess Copyright 2005 The Author(s) Aortic Aneurysm Abdominal blodomløp sykdommer The Tromsø Study Doctoral thesis Doktorgradsavhandling 2005 ftunivtroemsoe 2022-08-24T23:00:00Z Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a relatively common, potentially life-threatening condition roughly accounting for one percent of all the deaths in the western world. Abdominal aortic aneurysms are usually asymptomatic until rupture. Death from rupture is often sudden and the disease is prone to be misclassified as death from cardiac arrest. Since the introduction of surgical repair of AAA by Dubost and colleagues in 1952, interest in the epidemiology of AAAs has increased. Early epidemiological studies were primarily based on hospital records and autopsies. An increasing number of screening studies of AAA have been conducted and published subsequent to the introduction of ultrasound in medical diagnosis in the 1970s. Already in 1828 Cooper found that AAA is fourfold as common in men as compared to women. Later studies have reported similar results. The mean age of women with AAA is approximately 10 years higher than in men. Consequently, most of the screening studies have been conducted in men over 65 years. Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Tromsø University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Tromsø |
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Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a relatively common, potentially life-threatening condition roughly accounting for one percent of all the deaths in the western world. Abdominal aortic aneurysms are usually asymptomatic until rupture. Death from rupture is often sudden and the disease is prone to be misclassified as death from cardiac arrest. Since the introduction of surgical repair of AAA by Dubost and colleagues in 1952, interest in the epidemiology of AAAs has increased. Early epidemiological studies were primarily based on hospital records and autopsies. An increasing number of screening studies of AAA have been conducted and published subsequent to the introduction of ultrasound in medical diagnosis in the 1970s. Already in 1828 Cooper found that AAA is fourfold as common in men as compared to women. Later studies have reported similar results. The mean age of women with AAA is approximately 10 years higher than in men. Consequently, most of the screening studies have been conducted in men over 65 years. |
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Abdominal aortic aneurysms : diagnosis and epidemiology : the Tromsø Study |
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Abdominal aortic aneurysms : diagnosis and epidemiology : the Tromsø Study |
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Abdominal aortic aneurysms : diagnosis and epidemiology : the Tromsø Study |
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Abdominal aortic aneurysms : diagnosis and epidemiology : the Tromsø Study |
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Abdominal aortic aneurysms : diagnosis and epidemiology : the Tromsø Study |
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abdominal aortic aneurysms : diagnosis and epidemiology : the tromsø study |
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ISM skriftserie Nr. 80, 2005 990511922254702201 0801-017x https://hdl.handle.net/10037/26311 |
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