What are the risk factors for an aneurysm?

what would be the risk factors that contribute towards an aneurysm? So the risk factors for aneurysmal disease are broadly similar to those for cardiovascular disease in general so they can be split into non-modifiable risk factors and modifiable risk factors and the latter being more important because you can do something about them. The non-modifiable risk factors include gender. In infarenal disease men have a greater predisposition for developing dilatation of the aorta whereas in the thoracic aorta it's broadly similar. The genetics, you can't do much about that. There are some polygenetic conditions which are inherited in families that don't have a specific name that are just clusters of genes that put you at risk risk. And there are named conditions such as Marfan's disease or Ehlers-Danlos disease, which tend to cause people to develop aneurysms at a much younger age than you would otherwise. So family history, which is essentially genetics. So if anyone in your family has an aneurysm or any problem with the aorta under the age of 65, then you are also at risk, especially it's a first degree relative. Modifiable risk factors include things like smoking which is probably the most important risk factor because it can just be stopped, although that's easier said than done, but that's probably the strongest risk factor for developing an aneurysm and then for that aneurysm to continue to enlarge. And then we have things like high cholesterol, high blood pressure incidents of other aneurysmal diseases and that's the risk factors for traditional degenerative atherosclerotic aneurysms. Of course the other subtypes such as mycotic aneurysm and pseudoaneurysm relate to things like infection and trauma so that's a whole other kind of pathological entity really.