Abstract

RISCO TURINO, Carlos del; AVILA AROSTEGUI, Debbie; HERNANDEZ VARELA, Ariel  and  ROMAY BUITRAGO, Raúl. Intimal proliferation and atherosclerosis of the aorta and its risk factors. Rev Cubana Invest Bioméd [online]. 2004, vol.23, n.4, pp. 220-226. ISSN 1561-3011.

A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted to study the aortic arteries (thoraxic and abdominal segments) from 100 dead patients that underwent necropsy at “Manuel Ascunce Domenech” Clinical and Surgical Teaching Hospital and “Eduardo Agramonte Piña” Pediatric Teaching Hospital, in Camagüey. This study was aimed at contributing to the knowledge of the intimal proliferation in connection with the origin and development of the atherosclerotic lesion at the aorta level. The primary data were taken from a protocol of necropsies,. medical history and from a primary data collection. It was proved that the artherosclerotic lesion increased its frequency proportionally with age. The  analysis of the risk factors according to age states that this association is not a simple additive effect, but an exponential rise of the risk; althought there are patients without risk factors and with severe artherosclerotic lesion with no causal epidemiological relation The indexes of atherosclerotic lesion worsening are higher in the group of the dead with risk factors. The cellularity difference is more serious in the abdominal sector.

Keywords : Aterosclerosis; risk factors; aorta; abdominal.

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