Aortic aneurysms in Jamaica
| Autor: | V. Lindo, J.A. Hayes, A. Talerman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1968 |
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Male Jamaica medicine.medical_specialty Prevalence Black People White People Aortic aneurysm Sex Factors Aneurysm Asian People Humans Medicine Pathological Aged business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Aortic Aneurysm Surgery Infectious Diseases Etiology Female Parasitology Syphilis business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 62:522-527 |
| ISSN: | 0035-9203 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0035-9203(68)90137-5 |
| Popis: | The pathological findings in 91 cases of aortic aneurysm seen at the Pathology Department of the University Hospital of the West Indies in the years 1953–1966 have been reviewed. They were divided into aetiological groups based on histological features. Dissecting aneurysm was unexpectedly common with an incidence of 0·85% in the post-mortem cases, and there was an almost equal male and female incidence, as opposed to the male preponderance reported in most other series. Atherosclerosis was much more common than syphilis as an aetiological factor. This finding resembles those from North America and Europe and differs from the findings in Africa where the main cause is reported as syphilitic. The clinical findings were in keeping with the pathological changes. The resemblance of these findings in Jamaican Negroes to those in the North American white and Negro populations, and their differences from the findings in Africa, suggest that environmental factors are more important than racial factors. |
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