Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 48, Issue 4 , Pages 808-814.e1 , October 2008

Cardiovascular risk profile and outcome of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm in out-patients with atherothrombosis: Data from the Reduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health (REACH) Registry

  • Iris Baumgartner, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical and Interventional Angiology, Swiss Cardiovascular Centre, Angiology Division, University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Professor I. Baumgartner, Head, Clinical and Interventional Angiology, Swiss Cardiovascular Centre, University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
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  • Alan T. Hirsch, MD

      Affiliations

    • Vascular Medicine Program, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health and Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, Minneapolis, Minn
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  • Maria Teresa B. Abola, MD

      Affiliations

    • Vascular Medicine Section, Division of Clinical Cardiology, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Philippine Heart Center, Quezon City, Philippines
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  • Patrice P. Cacoub, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Pierre and Marie Curie Université, and Hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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  • Don Poldermans, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Philippe Gabriel Steg, MD

      Affiliations

    • INSERM U-698 and APHP (Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard), Université Paris 7, Paris, France
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  • Mark A. Creager, MD

      Affiliations

    • Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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  • Deepak L. Bhatt, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • REACH Registry investigators

Received 14 January 2008 ,Accepted 8 May 2008.

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 The REACH Registry is sponsored by Sanofi-Aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb, and sponsored by the Waksman Foundation in Japan.

 Competition of interest: none.

 Additional material for this article may be found online at www.jvascsurg.org.

PII: S0741-5214(08)00772-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.05.026

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 48, Issue 4 , Pages 808-814.e1 , October 2008

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