. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Vasc Surg. 2005 Nov;42(5):891–897. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2005.08.002

Table IV, online only.

Relative risk of AAA among smokers in the siblings of the AAA probands

	Ever smoker^*		Never smoker^*
	AAA	no AAA	AAA	no AAA	OR	CI
Male	22	47	1	10	4.7	0.6–38.9
Female	5	49	1	42	4.3	0.5–38.2
Total	27	96	2	52	7.3	1.7–32.0

For definitions, see Tables I and III.

Since there were only 2 AAA patients among the siblings of the spouses in the current study, only the result of the siblings of the AAA probands are shown.

Smoking information was available from 177 (53.1%) of the 333 siblings of the AAA probands.