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: Received: 26 October 2018 / Approved: 26 October 2018 / Online: 26 October 2018 (15:28:44 CEST)
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Altobelli, E.; Rapacchietta, L.; Profeta, V.F.; Fagnano, R. Risk Factors for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Population-Based Studies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Preprints2018, 2018100636. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201810.0636.v1
Altobelli, E.; Rapacchietta, L.; Profeta, V.F.; Fagnano, R. Risk Factors for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Population-Based Studies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Preprints 2018, 2018100636. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201810.0636.v1
Altobelli, E.; Rapacchietta, L.; Profeta, V.F.; Fagnano, R. Risk Factors for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Population-Based Studies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Preprints2018, 2018100636. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201810.0636.v1
APA Style
Altobelli, E., Rapacchietta, L., Profeta, V.F., & Fagnano, R. (2018). Risk Factors for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Population-Based Studies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201810.0636.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Altobelli, E., Valerio F. Profeta and Roberto Fagnano. 2018 "Risk Factors for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Population-Based Studies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201810.0636.v1
Abstract
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) represents an important public health problem with a prevalence between 1.3% and 12.5%. Several population-based randomized trials have evaluated ultrasound screening for AAA providing evidence of a reduction in aneurysm-related mortality in the screened population. The aim of our study was to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of the risk factors for AAA. We conducted a systematic review of observational studies and we performed a meta-analysis that evaluated the following risk factors: gender, smoking habits, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, Coronary Artery Disease and family history of AAA. Abdominal aortic aneurysm prevalence is higher in smokers and in males. It is important to underline that all countries, where AAA screening was set up, had high income level and the majority belong to Western Europe (United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy, Poland, Spain and Belgium). Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening is fundamental for public health. It would avoid deaths, ruptures, and emergency surgical interventions if abdominal aortic aneurysm was diagnosed early in the population target for screening.
Medicine and Pharmacology, Oncology and Oncogenics
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Received:
3 November 2018
Commenter:
Arkadiusz Jawien
The commenter has declared there is no conflict of interests.
Comment:
Dear Authors,
I want to congratulate you for the review article. I want to thank you for citing my papers, references 11and 36. Unfortunately, in the table 1. in position Poland the spelling of both our names are wrong. It should be Derezinski and below Jawien.
I would be more than happy if you could correct our names.
Once again congratulation for your interesting paper,
Commenter: Arkadiusz Jawien
The commenter has declared there is no conflict of interests.
I want to congratulate you for the review article. I want to thank you for citing my papers, references 11and 36. Unfortunately, in the table 1. in position Poland the spelling of both our names are wrong. It should be Derezinski and below Jawien.
I would be more than happy if you could correct our names.
Once again congratulation for your interesting paper,
My best regards,
Arkadiusz Jawien
Prof. of Vascular Surgery