Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and aortic rupture: a population-based case-control study

ACC/AHA 2005 Practice Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Peripheral Arterial Disease (Lower Extremity, Renal, Mesenteric, and Abdominal Aortic)

2006 • 3,673 citations

Rates of Hyperkalemia after Publication of the Randomized Aldactone Evaluation Study

2004 • 1,698 citations

Drug-Drug Interactions Among Elderly Patients Hospitalized for Drug Toxicity

2003 • 758 citations

Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Access to Invasive Cardiac Procedures and on Mortality after Acute Myocardial Infarction

1999 • 684 citations

The Aneurysm Detection and Management Study Screening Program

2000 • 678 citations

Risk Factors for Aneurysm Rupture in Patients Kept Under Ultrasound Surveillance

1999 • 672 citations

A meta-analysis of 50 years of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm repair

2002 • 561 citations

A multicenter study of the coding accuracy of hospital discharge administrative data for patients admitted to cardiac care units in Ontario

2002 • 501 citations

Autopsy study of unoperated abdominal aortic aneurysms. The case for early resection.

1977 • 478 citations

Coding accuracy of administrative drug claims in the Ontario Drug Benefit database.

2003 • 476 citations

Cyclo-oxygenase-2 inhibitors versus non-selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and congestive heart failure outcomes in elderly patients: a population-based cohort study

2004 • 436 citations

Actuarial analysis of variables associated with rupture of small abdominal aortic aneurysms.

1985 • 421 citations

Use of comorbidity scores for control of confounding in studies using administrative databases

2000 • 404 citations

Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm: A population-based study

1993 • 365 citations

Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms: single centre randomised controlled trial

2005 • 344 citations

Expert consensus document on angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in cardiovascular diseaseThe Task Force on ACE-inhibitors of the European Society of Cardiology

2004 • 339 citations

Improved Comorbidity Adjustment for Predicting Mortality in Medicare Populations

2003 • 287 citations

Abdominal aortic aneurysm in women

2001 • 245 citations

Propranolol for small abdominal aortic aneurysms: Results of a randomized trial

2002 • 218 citations

Increased Chymase-Dependent Angiotensin II Formation in Human Atherosclerotic Aorta

1999 • 199 citations

Experience in the United States with intact abdominal aortic aneurysm repair

2001 • 188 citations

Smoking and growth rate of small abdominal aortic aneurysms

1994 • 183 citations

Computed tomography scanning findings associated with rapid expansion of abdominal aortic aneurysms

1994 • 178 citations

Predictors of death from aortic aneurysm among middle-aged men: The Whitehall study

1991 • 171 citations

Suppression of experimental abdominal aortic aneurysms in the rat by treatment with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors

2001 • 155 citations

β blockers for elective surgery in elderly patients: population based, retrospective cohort study

2005 • 153 citations

Hypertension Does Not Account for the Accelerated Atherosclerosis and Development of Aneurysms in Male Apolipoprotein E/Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Double Knockout Mice

2001 • 143 citations

Enalapril attenuates angiotensin II-induced atherosclerosis and vascular inflammation

2004 • 137 citations

Community and hospital outcome from ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm within the catchment area of a regional vascular surgical service

1999 • 121 citations

Renin-Angiotensin System and Atherothrombotic Disease

2003 • 116 citations

Impaired results of a randomised double blinded clinical trial of propranolol versus placebo on the expansion rate of small abdominal aortic aneurysms.

1999 • 95 citations

Ramipril Reduces Large-Artery Stiffness in Peripheral Arterial Disease and Promotes Elastogenic Remodeling in Cell Culture

2005 • 92 citations

Increased local angiotensin II formation in aneurysmal aorta

2002 • 81 citations

Consistency of performance ranking of comorbidity adjustment scores in canadian and U.S. utilization data

2004 • 80 citations

Sudden death in chronic dialysis patients

1997 • 75 citations

Factors influencing the rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysms.

1991 • 75 citations

Protection of the Arterial Internal Elastic Lamina by Inhibition of the Renin-Angiotensin System in the Rat

1998 • 69 citations

Angiotensin II injures the arterial wall causing increased aortic stiffening in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice

2002 • 67 citations

Effectiveness and cost of screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm: results of a population screening program

2003 • 63 citations

ACE DD Genotype: A Predisposing Factor for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

2005 • 60 citations

Clinical Issues: Supply of Physicians' Services in Ontario

1999 • 60 citations

The Natural History of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms and their Risk of Rupture

2001 • 59 citations

II Genotype of the Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Gene Increases the Risk for Subarachnoid Hemorrhage From Ruptured Aneurysm

2004 • 54 citations

An angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, not an angiotensin II type-1 receptor blocker, prevents β-aminopropionitrile monofumarate-induced aortic dissection in rats

2002 • 53 citations

The ACE I allele is associated with increased risk for ruptured intracranial aneurysms

2000 • 52 citations

Possible Roles of Angiotensin II-Forming Enzymes, Angiotensin Converting Enzyme and Chymase-like Enzyme, in the Human Aneurysmal Aorta.

2002 • 51 citations

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Normotensive Patients: Association with Angiotensin-converting Enzyme Gene Polymorphism

2001 • 49 citations

Aldosterone does not mediate angiotensin II‐induced atherosclerosis and abdominal aortic aneurysms

2005 • 48 citations

An angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, not an angiotensin II type-1 receptor blocker, prevents β-aminopropionitrile monofumarate-induced aortic dissection in rats

2002 • 46 citations

Angiotensin I-converting enzyme gene polymorphism in intracranial saccular aneurysm individuals

1998 • 42 citations

Smoking, Lung Function and the Prognosis of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

2000 • 42 citations

Angiotensin II and abdominal aortic aneurysms

2004 • 40 citations

High incidence of angiotensin I converting enzyme genotype II in Kawasaki disease patients with coronary aneurysm

1997 • 34 citations

ACE Inhibitors Increase Type III Collagen Synthesis: A Potential Explanation for Reduction in Acute Vascular Events by ACE Inhibitors

2004 • 31 citations

Effect of propanolol on the expansion of abdominal aortic aneurysms: a randomized study

2000 • 27 citations

Prospects for the Medical Management of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

2003 • 24 citations

Use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor therapy and dose-related outcomes in older adults with new heart failure in the community

2004 • 18 citations

Induction of aneurysms in the rat by a stenosing cotton ligature around the inter-renal aorta.

1994 • 14 citations

Three-Dimensional Imaging of Aortic Aneurysm After Balloon Angioplasty for Coarctation of the Aorta

1999 • 2 citations