Cigarette smoking and risk of intracranial aneurysms in middle-aged women.
Christopher S OgilvySantiago Gomez-PazKimberly P KicielinskiMohamed M SalemYosuke AkamatsuMuhammad WaqasHamid Hussain RaiJoshua S CatapanoSandeep MuramMohammed ElghareebAdnan H SiddiquiElad I LevyMichael T LawtonAlim P MithaBrian L HohAdam PolifkaW Christopher FoxJustin M MooreAjith J ThomasPublished in: Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry (2020)
Women aged between 30 and 60 years with a positive smoking history have a four-fold increased risk for having an UIA, and a seven-fold increased risk if they have underlying chronic hypertension. These findings indicate that women aged between 30 and 60 years with a positive smoking history might benefit from a screening recommendation.