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.
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.
Sweeting et al. (2012) studied this question.