Table 1.

Characteristic of the examined groups

Variable	Control group	AAA patients	TAA patients
Total	20	47	61
Gender (M/F)	(10/10)	(41/6)	(41/20)
Age (years): average ± SD (range)	52.4 ± 14.5 (21–68)	69.7 ± 9.9 (46–86)	60.1 ± 13.6 (22–83)
Aneurysm size (mm) average ± SD (range)	-	73.815 ± 18.47 (50–120)	53.377 ± 8.56 (30–92)
Smoking cigarettesa/no-smoking	nd	41/6	48/13
Alcohol drinkingb/no-drinking	nd	21/26	9/52

AAA abdominal aortic aneurysm, TAA thoracic aortic aneurysm, SD standard deviation, nd no data

^a20–40 cigarettes/daily

^bMore than once a week