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Options for repair of a bicuspid aortic valve and ascending aortic aneurysm -
TM Sundt, BN Mora, MR Moon, MS Bailey, MK Pasque, … - The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2000 - Soc Thorac Surgeons
... Mixed 4 (22%) 11 (41%) 0.33 ... Although there were no late aneurysms among the separate
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Cathepsin L expression and regulation in human abdominal aortic aneurysm, atherosclerosis, and … -
J Liu, GK Sukhova, JT Yang, J Sun, L Ma, A Ren, WH … - Atherosclerosis, 2006 - Elsevier
... n = 7), normal aortas from cardiac transplant donors (n = 7), and abdominal aortic
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EXPANSION RATES OF SMALL ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS -
R Englund, P Hudson, K Hanel, A Stanton - ANZ Journal of Surgery, 1998 - Blackwell Synergy
... dif- ferent expansion rate for aneurysms among patients whose ... between the presence
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Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in a Population-based Study-The Tromso … -
K Singh, KH Bonaa, BK Jacobsen, L Bjork, S Solberg - American Journal of Epidemiology, 2001 - pt.wkhealth.com
... previously identified as having a high risk of coronary heart disease ... Most previous
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[PDF] Evaluation of Serum Levels of C-Reactive Protein (CRP) and Interleukin-6 (Il-6) in Coronary Artery …
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... to 2.0 fold of normal diameters, and a coronary aneurysm was defined as ... in atherogenesis
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Smoking, Hypertension, Alcohol Consumption, and Risk of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Men. -
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... had a 15-fold increased risk of aortic aneurysm. Even among former smokers, the
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Risk factors for asymptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysm Systematic review and meta-analysis of … -
J Cornuz, C Sidoti Pinto, H Tevaearai, M Egger - The European Journal of Public Health, 2004 - Oxford Univ Press
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Population based randomised controlled trial on impact of screening on mortality from abdominal … -
PE Norman, K Jamrozik, MM Lawrence-Brown, MT Le, … - BMJ, 2004 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... 4 This contrasts with trends seen in coronary heart disease ... a single ultrasound screen
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Epidemiology of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms -
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... festations of atherosclerosis, such as coronary heart disease ... the United States
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Increased prevalence of coronary aneurysms among cocaine users

 
 
A study, published in Circulation - Journal of the American Heart Association - documented that cocaine predisposes to coronary aneurysms.

“ We found a significantly higher percentage of aneurysms in patients who had used cocaine than in a group of patients of similar age who did not, ” said the study’s senior author, Timothy D. Henry, director of research at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, and an associate professor at the University of Minnesota.

Researchers examined the records of 191 men and women. They included 112 cocaine users who underwent angiography for known or suspected heart problems during a 10-year period and 79 age-matched controls who also underwent angiography.

Henry and his colleagues identified definite or probable aneurysms in the coronary arteries of 30.4 percent of the cocaine users compared to only 7.6 percent of the non-user controls.

The average age of the cocaine users was 43.7 years and that of the non-users was 45.6 years, an insignificant difference. Males made up 80 percent of the cocaine group compared to 61 percent of the nonuser group, a statistically significant difference. About 95 percent of the cocaine users smoked, compared to 71 percent of the control group.

Among all study participants, a previous heart attack and cocaine use were the strongest predictors that a patient would have an aneurysm.
Previous heart attack was common in both groups – 45 percent of cocaine users and 38 percent of control patients.

“ The extremely high prevalence of coronary artery aneurysms in cocaine users is striking compared with the control group, ” Henry said. It is also much higher than the rate of coronary artery aneurysms found in previous studies of patients undergoing angiography, which ranged from 0.2 to 5.3 percent.

About 50 percent of coronary artery aneurysms were related to the presence of atherosclerosis. Those aneurysms, located in the arteries that carry blood to the heart, rarely burst, and thus do not carry the same direct risk of death from a rupture as aneurysms in the brain and those in the aorta. But at least in cocaine users, coronary artery aneurysms may contribute to death in another way — by setting up a person for a heart attack.

Henry and his colleagues suggest two possible ways that cocaine might weaken the artery wall and lead to an aneurysm.
The drug can cause sharp spikes in blood pressure and it can damage the cells that line the inner walls of the heart’s arteries.
They speculated that once an aneurysm forms, blood may flow through it in a way that facilitates blood clots to form, which, in turn, can block the flow of blood and cause a heart attack.

In 2001, 27.7 million Americans age 12 and older ( 12 percent of this age group ) had used cocaine at least once in their lives and almost 1.7 million had used the drug in the previous month, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Based on medical records, the researchers were able to reliably document the frequency of cocaine use in 61 of the drug users. They found that 66 percent of those patients reported using the drug at least once a week.

Source: Circulation, 2005
 
 
 
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