Detecting Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in First Degree Relatives (Adult Offsprings) to AAA Patients (DAAAD)

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This project will evaluate four questions Feasibility of study design; can we evaluate the prevalence of AAA by inviting and detecting risk groups in national registries ? Point prevalence of AAA in a riskgroup of adult offspring to AAA patients as compared to a matched control group Quality of Life...

This project will evaluate four questions Feasibility of study design; can we evaluate the prevalence of AAA by inviting and detecting risk groups in national registries ? Point prevalence of AAA in a riskgroup of adult offspring to AAA patients as compared to a matched control group Quality of Life in risk groups: measuring HADS, EQ-5D and questionnaire on heredity, including their awareness on their risk for AAA Cost-effectiveness of such a national program based on prevalence and EQ-5D This program will evaluate the risk for AAA in adult offspring and also evaluate a highly probable effective registry-based detection route. This could be more cost-efficient than any other AAA screening program, since the prevalence presumably is very high, and the registry-based route could be cheaper than nurse-based detection or incidental screening. The ultimate benefit of this program will be a crude reduction of sudden deaths from AAA for adult offspring to AAA patients, and this will be specifically impressive for the female relatives that are never subjected to any AAA-screening in our country.

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