Refining the upper limit of normal for the ascending aorta: In search of optimal criteria -- a large database study of normal individuals.

Ji Ae YoonMirza Mujadil AhmadMuhammad Nabeel SyedMirza Nubair AhmadSharmeen Fatima HussainiMustafa Noor MuhammadSyed Haris A PirBijoy K KhandheriaAbdul Jamil Tajik Khawaja Afzal Ammar

Published in: Vascular (2022)

The lowest prevalence of 7.6% probably represents the optimal cutoff for dilated mAA because it includes age, which explains most of the variation in mAA, in narrow (10 year) intervals only performed in our normals, which represents the largest sample size to date.

Keyphrases

pulmonary artery
risk factors
aortic valve
emergency department
adverse drug
electronic health record