Chronic kidney disease measures and the risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm

Despite its strong link to cardiovascular outcomes, the association of chronic kidney disease (CKD) with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) has not been explicitly and comprehensively investigated.

Source: Atherosclerosis - August 31, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Kunihiro Matsushita, Lucia Kwak, Shoshana Ballew, Morgan E. Grams, Elizabeth Selvin, Aaron R. Folsom, Josef Coresh, Weihong Tang Source Type: research