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Risk factors

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Risk factors for cholesterol emboli syndrome include:

  • age:
    • usually occuring in those over 50 yr

  • males are more frequently affected than females

  • Caucasians are more frequently affected than blacks

  • hypertension

  • aortic aneurysm

  • diabetes

  • precipitating events include:
    • vascular surgery, including CABG
    • angiography
    • thrombolysis
    • anticoagulation

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