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Racial Distribution of Aneurysms in Zimbabwe

Author(s) -

Neil Kitchen

Publication year - 1989

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107688908200305

Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , syphilis , aortic aneurysm , retrospective cohort study , surgery , distribution (mathematics) , aneurysm , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , family medicine , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , optics

The distribution of aneurysms amongst African and Caucasian patients in two hospitals in Zimbabwe was surveyed in a retrospective study. Aneurysms were more common amongst the Caucasian patients and abdominal aortic aneurysms predominated (85%). Amongst the African patients there was a high incidence of thoracic aortic aneurysms (42%). Possible roles of atherosclerosis and syphilis in explaining these results are discussed.

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