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Prevalence of coronary artery disease, lower extremity peripheral arterial disease, and cerebrovascular disease in 110 men with an abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Sukhija R, Aronow WS, Yalamanchili K, Sinha N, Babu S

Department of Medicine, the Cardiology Division, and the Division of Vascular Surgery, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, Valhalla 10595, USA.

Of 110 men (mean age 66 years) with an abdominal aortic aneurysm, 78 (71%) had coronary artery disease (CAD), 50 (46%) had lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD), and 30 (27%) had cerebrovascular disease. Twenty-four percent of the patients with an abdominal aortic aneurysm had CAD plus lower extremity PAD plus cerebrovascular disease, 22% had CAD plus lower extremity PAD and no cerebrovascular disease, 22% had only CAD, 4% had CAD plus cerebrovascular disease and no lower extremity PAD, and 29% had no CAD, lower extremity PAD, or cerebrovascular disease.

Published 15 November 2004 in Am J Cardiol, 94(10): 1358-9.
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