Atherosclerotic vascular diseases have really the same risk factors? Comparison between large abdominal aortic aneurysm and obstructive non-coronary arterial disease.

Conclusions Patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm were mostly males with diastolic hypertension, impaired renal function and less diabetics, while patients with occlusive arteriopathy were more smokers, hypertensives and more hypertriglyceridemics. PMID: 28509621 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28509621?dopt=Abstract

Source: Vascular - January 1, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Tsialtas D, Bolognesi MG, Volpi R, Bolognesi R Tags: Vascular Source Type: research