Additional Issues on Screening, Prevention, and Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

American Journal of Men's Health

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 472-474

  Paraskevas, Kosmas I ^a   Mikhailidis, Dimitri P ^b   Giannoukas, Athanasios D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

abdominal aortic aneurysm; prevention; risk factors; screening; smoking

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SCREENING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMOKING; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM; PREVENTION; RISK FACTORS; SCREENING; SMOKING;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884469164     PISSN: 15579883     EISSN: 15579891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1557988313483306     Document Type: Article

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