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Prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysms and its relation with cardiovascular risk stratification: protocol of the Risk of Cardiovascular diseases and abdominal aortic Aneurysm in Varese (RoCAV) population based study

BACKGROUND: Recent meta-analyses suggested that screening program for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) in 65-year old males is cost-effective at prevalence of about 1%. Since some events occur also in females and among the youngers, screening could be feasible among those at higher risk, such as smo...

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Autores principales: Gianfagna, F., Veronesi, G., Bertù, L., Tozzi, M., Tarallo, A., Ferrario, M. M., Castelli, P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5127056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27894269
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-016-0420-2