Abdominal aortic aneurysm—an independent disease to atherosclerosis?

BJ Toghill, A Saratzis, MJ Bown - Cardiovascular Pathology, 2017 - Elsevier
Atherosclerosis and abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) are multifactorial and polygenic
diseases with known environmental and genetic risk factors that contribute toward disease
development. Atherosclerosis represents an important independent risk factor for AAA, as
people with AAA often have atherosclerosis. Studies have shown that comorbidity is usually
between~ 25% and 55%, but it is still not fully known whether this association is causal or a
result of common shared risk profiles. Most recent epidemiological, clinical, and biological …
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