Prevalence of and risk factors for abdominal aortic aneurysms in a population-based study : The Tromsø Study.

Singh, K; H Bønaa, K; K Jacobsen, B; Bjørk, L; Solberg, S

doi:10.1093/aje/154.3.236

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Prevalence of and risk factors for abdominal aortic aneurysms in a population-based study : The Tromsø Study.

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K Singh

K H Bønaa

B K Jacobsen

Abstract

In a population-based study of 6,386 men and women aged 25--84 years in Tromsø, Norway, in 1994--1995, the authors assessed the age- and sex-specific distribution of the abdominal aortic diameter and the prevalence of and risk factors for abdominal aortic aneurysm. Renal and infrarenal aortic diamet...

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