Pathophysiology of AAA: heredity vs environment.

Abstract excerpt

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) has a complex pathophysiology, in which both environmental and genetic factors play important roles, the most important being smoking. The recently reported falling prevalence rates of AAA in northern Europe and Australia/New Zeeland are largely explained by healthier smoking habits. Dietary factors and obesity, in particular abdominal obesity, are also of importance. A family...

Topics

• Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal
• Diet
• Gene-Environment Interaction
• Genetic Predisposition to Disease
• Heredity
• Humans
• Obesity
• Pedigree
• Phenotype
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Factors