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Evaluating feasibility of using national registries for identification, invitation, and ultrasound examination of persons with hereditary risk for aneurysm disease—detecting abdominal aortic aneurysms in first degree relatives (adult offspring) to AAA patients (DAAAD)

BACKGROUND: Sweden and the UK invite all 65-year-old men to a population-based ultrasound-based screening program to detect abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). First-degree relatives of patients with AAA are reported to have an increased risk to develop AAA, both women and men, but are not invited to...

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Autores principales: Hultgren, Rebecka, Fattahi, Nina, Nilsson, Olga, Svensjö, Sverker, Roy, Joy, Linne, Anneli
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9742022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36503690
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-01196-9