Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm in the Jeddah area, western Saudi Arabia

Alzahrani, Hasan A.; Rawas, Mohamed M.; Maimani, A. A.; Gasab, M; Khail, B A Aba al

doi:10.1016/0967-2109(96)83791-4

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“…With this standard definition, it is important to know the normal diameter of abdominal aorta so that clinicians will be able to determine when an aorta becomes aneurysmal. The mean diameters at the level of the infrarenal aorta were 16 to 23 mm in males and 15 to 19 mm in females 4-6. However, a practical working definition of an AAA is a transverse diameter of 3 cm or greater based on average values for normal individuals 7…”

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Reference Diameters of the Abdominal Aorta and Iliac Arteries in the Korean Population

Joh

Ahn

2013

Yonsei Med J

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PurposeIt is important to know the normal diameter of artery throughout the body so that clinicians are able to determine when an artery becomes aneurysmal. However, there are no previous studies on the normal diameter of arteries in the general Korean population. The purpose of this article is to determine the normal reference diameters of the abdominal aorta and iliac arteries in the Korean population.Materials and MethodsWe recruited the study population from three cities in Korea for the abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening. We measured the diameter of the aorta and iliac arteries. We analyzed the reference diameter of the population without AAA. The results were analyzed by Student's t-test and ANOVA on SPSS version 19. A p value <0.05 was considered to be statistically significant.ResultsOne thousand two hundred and twenty-nine people were enrolled. 478 men and 751 women, with a mean age of 63.9±10.1 years (range 50 to 91) were examined. Eleven out of 1229 (0.89%) were diagnosed with AAA. In the population of 1218 people without AAA, the mean diameters (cm) of male/female were 2.20/2.11 (p<0.001) at suprarenal, 2.04/1.90 (p<0.001) at renal, 1.90/1.79 (p<0.001) at infrarenal, 1.22/1.17 (p<0.001) at right iliac and 1.47/1.15 (p=0.097) at the left iliac, respectively. There was a significantly larger diameter in the male population. The diameter of each level increased with age.ConclusionThe normal reference diameter of the infrarenal abdominal aorta in the Korean population is 1.9 cm in males and 1.79 cm in females. The diameter of the abdominal aorta increases with age.

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Reference Diameters of the Abdominal Aorta and Iliac Arteries in the Korean Population

Joh

Ahn

2013

Yonsei Med J

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“…We excluded 82 records because they were case reports/case series, 12 were comments, 10 were editorials, 9 clinical guidelines, 80 were systematic reviews, 13 were meta-analysis, 573 were about other topics. 40 papers were considered for systematic review (Figure 1) 14 papers were considered in Meta-Analysis: 13 prevalence studies and 1 case-control hospitalbased study [4,[11][12][13]15,18,34,35,44,47,50,52,54,56].…”

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“…Eight papers contain frequencies on hypertension [12,15,18,34,35,52,54,56]. The overall effect size was OR=1.55 (1.02-2.34), p=0.039, with Q=112.34, I 2 =93.77, p<0.0001 ( Figure 4A and Table 3).…”

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“…Indeed, in all studies gender and smoking habits are highly associated with AAA [4,[9][10][11][12][13][15][16][17][18]. Other studies have shown an association among AAA and the following diseases: hypertension, peripheral vascular disease, ischemic heart disease, previous myocardial infarction, chronic obstructive respiratory disease, symptoms of occlusive arterial and coronary artery [43,45,52].…”

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“…Some Italian studies included in our systematic review have showed AAA prevalence between 1.4% and 6.2% [13,18,34,35]. Other studies showed a range of prevalence AAA from 0.3% to 12.4% or between 0.5% and 9.3% [4,[9][10][11]13,17,18,32,[50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58]. These differences could be due to the different age ranges of the enrolled patients in the studies.…”

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Risk Factors for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Population-Based Studies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Rapacchietta²,

Profeta³

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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.

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1999

JAMA

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Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm in the Jeddah area, western Saudi Arabia

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Reference Diameters of the Abdominal Aorta and Iliac Arteries in the Korean Population

Reference Diameters of the Abdominal Aorta and Iliac Arteries in the Korean Population

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