A large proportion of patients with small ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms are women and have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Antti Siika; Moritz Lindquist Liljeqvist; Sayid Zommorodi; Olga Nilsson; Patricia Andersson; T. Christian Gasser; Joy Roy; Rebecka Hultgren

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0216558

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A large proportion of patients with small ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms are women and have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Antti Siika ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: antti.siika@ki.se

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2551-2526

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Moritz Lindquist Liljeqvist,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Sayid Zommorodi,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Olga Nilsson,

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7670-1677

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Patricia Andersson,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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T. Christian Gasser,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Solid Mechanics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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Joy Roy,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Vascular Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Rebecka Hultgren

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Vascular Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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A large proportion of patients with small ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms are women and have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Antti Siika,
Moritz Lindquist Liljeqvist,
Sayid Zommorodi,
Olga Nilsson,
Patricia Andersson,
T. Christian Gasser,
Joy Roy,
Rebecka Hultgren

Published: May 28, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216558

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