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What are the age-specific incidence, risk factors, and outcomes of acute abdominal aortic aneurysms?
What are the age-specific incidence, risk factors, and outcomes of acute abdominal aortic aneurysms?
Acute AAA events predominantly occur in individuals aged 75 and older and have strong associations with smoking and hypertension, suggesting potential implications for expanding screening guidelines.
May support extending AAA screening to adults ≥75 years and women; hypothesis-generating pending prospective validation.
Two-thirds of acute AAA events occurred at age 75 years or above, and more than 25 per cent of events were in women. Taken with the strong associations with smoking and hypertension, these findings could have implications for AAA screening.
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