Greater Aortic Stiffness and Pulsatile Arterial Load Are Associated With Larger Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Size in Women

Circulation. 2019 Feb 19;139(8):1124-1126. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.037630.

Jennifer Jue¹, Munir Boodhwani², Luc Beauchesne³, Carole Dennie⁴, Sudhir Nagpal⁵, Kwan-Leung Chan³, Thais Coutinho^{3

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¹ Division of Cardiology, Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, Nanaimo, BC, Canada (J.J.).
² Division of Cardiac Surgery (M.B.), University of Ottawa Heart Institute, ON, Canada.
³ Division of Cardiology (L.B., K.-L.C., T.C.), University of Ottawa Heart Institute, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Radiology (C.D.), The Ottawa Hospital, ON, Canada.
⁵ Division of Vascular Surgery (S.N.), The Ottawa Hospital, ON, Canada.
⁶ Division of Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation (T.C.), University of Ottawa Heart Institute, ON, Canada.
⁷ Canadian Women's Heart Health Centre (T.C.), University of Ottawa Heart Institute, ON, Canada.

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Keywords: aortic aneurysm, thoracic; hemodynamics; vascular resistance; vascular stiffness; women.

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