Response to Letters Regarding Article, “Risk Factors for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: A 7-Year Prospective Study: The Tromsø Study”

Abstract

Reference1. Forsdahl SH, Singh K, Solberg S, Jacobsen BK. Risk factors for abdominal aortic aneurysms: a 7-year prospective study: the Tromsø

Pattern of aneurysms among young black Kenyans

“…Observations of the current study reveal, in tandem with literature reports on all age cohorts, that hypertension, smoking, and alcohol are the predominant risk factors [15][16][17]. The association of these comorbidities with aneurysms is commensurate with their prevalence among young Africans including Kenyans [18][19][20][21].…”

Prevalence of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm and Large Infrarenal Aorta in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome and Proven Coronary Stenosis: A Prospective Monocenter Study

“…In a recent analysis of the Tromsø Study, 25 variables significantly associated with increased AAA incidence in multivariable analysis were increasing age, male gender, smoking, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia. In a meta-analysis of population-based screening studies, history of coronary artery disease was also shown to be a risk factor for AAA.…”

Twenty-year review of abdominal aortic aneurysm screening in men in the county of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

“…15 Neither is there any evidence that the population scanned has changed: attendance rates in this group of 65-year-old men have remained similar throughout the study. Hypertension, smoking, and hypercholesterolemia have been shown to have a strong association with the development of AAAs 16 and it is suggested that improved medical management of these risk factors is bringing to an end the epidemic of AAAs. 17 This possible reduction is perhaps consistent with other improvements in rates of cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke 18 and has also been described recently in Sweden, Australia, and New Zealand.…”