Retrospective review of abdominal aortic aneurysm deaths in New Zealand: what proportion of deaths is potentially preventable by a screening programme in the contemporary setting?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the proportions of people dying from abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) who might have benefited from a formal screening programme for AAA.

Design

Retrospective cross-sectional review of deaths.

Setting and study populations

All AAA deaths registered in New Zealand from 2010 to 2014 in the absence of a national AAA screening programme.

Main outcome measures

Known history of AAA prior to the acute event leading to AAA death, prognosis limiting comorbidities, history of prior abdominal imaging and a validated multimorbidity measure (M3-index scores).

Results

1094 AAA deaths were registered in the 5 years between 2010 and 2014 in New Zealand. Prior to the acute AAA event resulting in death, 31.3% of the cohort had a known AAA diagnosis,

SUBMITTER: Chan WC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6677995 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature