Anxiety and disease awareness in individuals with heredity for abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Nina FattahiOlga NilssonSverker SvensjöJoy RoyAnneli LinnéRebecka Hultgren

Published in: Journal of medical screening (2024)

The higher-than-expected proportion of adult offspring with awareness of heritability and anxiety about such risk indicates that we fail to communicate risk to this group appropriately via the current channels of information within the healthcare system. This calls for the development of dedicated strategies for improved communication of abdominal aortic aneurysm risk to patients and their next of kin.

Keyphrases

abdominal aortic aneurysm
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
sleep quality
high fat diet
peritoneal dialysis
metabolic syndrome
depressive symptoms