Unruptured intracranial aneurysms conservatively followed with serial CT angiography: could morphology and growth predict rupture?
Aneurysm morphology and interval growth are characteristics predictive of a higher risk of subsequent rupture during conservative CTA follow-up.
Our data demonstrated that in this cohort of elderly hypertensive participants with a high prevalence of central obesity, impaired glycemic control was common, but was not associated with fasting hyperinsulinemia or peripheral insulin resistance. Furthermore, we conclude that syndrome X essentially did not occur in these participants and postulate that the primary etiology for their impaired glycemic control is beta cell dysfunction. Further research is needed to elucidate these relationships.