Risk factors and associated pathologies are variable depending on the location of the aorta disease.
Observational and retrospective study (151 consecutive patients with periodical check-up or admitted for surgery, in our Cardiovascular Surgery Department in the last year).
In thoracic locations (n = 57), the 18-50 age group (26.3%) and inherited disorders (10.5%) got a statistical significance compared to abdominal locations (n = 94), which were associated to 70-90 age group (57.4%), male (97.9%), smoking (85.1%), dyslipidemia (60.6%) and symptomatic coronary heart disease (33%). The last three were also associated in multivariate analysis.
Our results show the existence of different cardiovascular risk profiles for each one of the locations of aorta disease.