Abdominal angina epidemiology and demographics
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
1 % of patients with acute abdomen have Acute Mesenteric Ischemia.
Gender
Females outnumber males by approximately 3 to 1
Race
No data is available for incidence and prevalence of abdominal angina within different races.
Age
The incidence of AMI increases exponentially with age.
It is the cause of acute abdomen in 10% of patients with with age over 70 years
Developing Countries
Internationallly the incidence of abdominal angina is extremely rare. The true incidence is unknown