Hypertension and smoking are the dominant population-level risk factors for aortic dissection and abdominal aortic aneurysm, respectively.
This large prospective study identified distinct risk factor profiles for different aortic diseases in the general population. Hypertension accounted for more than half of the population risk for AD, and smoking for half of the population risk of AAA.
Landenhed et al. (Mon,) studied this question.
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