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. 2018 Feb 27;7(5):e007959. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.117.007959

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© 2018 The Authors. Published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wiley.

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Flow chart of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) patient inclusion and reasons for exclusion. Patients with small AAAs, defined as a maximal diameter of >30 mm and <55 mm, were retrospectively taken into consideration. Of a total 1515 patients, those who underwent AAA repair within 150 days of diagnosis, those with a short follow‐up of <150 days, those who had no follow‐up computed tomographic scan, and those diagnosed as having Marfan syndrome, IgG4‐related disease, saccular aneurysm, infectious aneurysm, traumatic aneurysm, inflammatory aneurysm, or congenital aneurysm were excluded. After these exclusions, 213 patients with small AAAs remained, and of those patients, 49 participated in the cardiac rehabilitation program. Finally, 88 patients remained after propensity score matching.