Epidemiology of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

Neuroimaging Clin N Am. 1997 Nov;7(4):659-68.

Abstract

An estimated 1% to 5% of adults have a cerebral aneurysm. Each year, approximately 1 in 10,000 North Americans suffer an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, with greater than 50% combined morbidity and mortality. Cerebral aneurysm formation and rupture is associated with a variety of factors, including increasing age, female gender, hypertension, alcohol, smoking, and genetic factors.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Age Factors
  • Alcohol Drinking / epidemiology
  • Aneurysm, Ruptured / epidemiology
  • Aneurysm, Ruptured / genetics
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypertension / epidemiology
  • Intracranial Aneurysm / epidemiology*
  • Intracranial Aneurysm / genetics
  • Intracranial Aneurysm / mortality
  • Male
  • North America / epidemiology
  • Risk Factors
  • Sex Factors
  • Smoking / epidemiology
  • Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / epidemiology*
  • Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / genetics
  • Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / mortality