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1 Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm in Canada: Review and position statement of the Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery  Tara M. Mastracci, MD, FRCSC, Claudio S. Cinà, MD, Spec Chir(lt), FRCSC, MSc (HRM)  Journal of Vascular Surgery  Volume 45, Issue 6, Pages e5 (June 2007) DOI: /j.jvs Copyright © 2007 The Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Pooled relative risk abdominal aortic aneurysm related death (men >64 years old).1-4 Journal of Vascular Surgery  , e5DOI: ( /j.jvs ) Copyright © 2007 The Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 Pooled relative risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm related death stratified by age.1-4 Journal of Vascular Surgery  , e5DOI: ( /j.jvs ) Copyright © 2007 The Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions

4 Fig 3 Online only. GRADE Recommendations for Quality Assessment of Evidence. The GRADE recommendations address shortcomings of existing quality assessment systems that put weight on study design, but exclude other factors such as study quality (defined as adequacy of allocation concealment, blinding, and follow-up), consistency (defined as the similarity of estimates of effect across studies), and directness (defined as the extent to which the people, interventions and outcome measures are similar to those of interest).91 Journal of Vascular Surgery  , e5DOI: ( /j.jvs ) Copyright © 2007 The Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions


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