Smoking, sex, risk factors and abdominal aortic aneurysms: a prospective study of 18 782 persons aged above 65 years in the Southern Community Cohort Study.

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on January 06, 2015

Authors

Eiman Jahangir1, Loren Lipworth2, Todd L Edwards2, Edmond K Kabagambe2, Michael T Mumma3, George A Mensah4, Sergio Fazio5, William J Blot6, Uchechukwu K A Sampson7

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School- The University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
2: Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
3: International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
4: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
5: Center of Preventive Cardiology, Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
6: Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
7: Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

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