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Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Risk Factors

Researchers at Cambridge University, NHS Foundation Trust target abdominal aortic aneurysm risk factors

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, July 6th, 2007

Researchers detail in "VBHOM, a data economic model for predicting the outcome after open abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery," new data in abdominal aortic aneurysm. According to a study from Cambridge, the United Kingdom, "Vascular Biochemistry and Haematology Outcome Models (VBHOM) adopted the approach of using a minimum data set to model outcome. This study aimed to test such a model on a cohort of patients undergoing open elective and non-elective abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair."

"A binary logistic regression model of risk of in-hospital mortality was built from the 2002-2004 submission to the UK National Vascular Database (NVD) (2718 patients). The subset of...

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