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What factors and medications affect the growth and rupture of small abdominal aortic aneurysms?
What factors and medications affect the growth and rupture of small abdominal aortic aneurysms?
Follow-up schedules for small AAAs should incorporate diabetes and smoking status, and a lower threshold for surgical intervention in women may be justified.
Incorporate diabetes, smoking, and female sex into small AAA surveillance and intervention thresholds; confirms no major drug effects on progression.
Follow-up schedules for individuals with a small AAA may need to consider diabetes and smoking, in addition to aneurysm diameter. The differing risk factors for growth and rupture suggest that a lower threshold for surgical intervention in women may be justified. No single drug used for cardiovascular risk reduction had a major effect on the growth or rupture of small aneurysms.
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