Risk Factors

Risk Factors that doctors and researchers believe contribute to the formation of brain aneurysms:
  • Smoking

  • Hypertension

  • Congenital resulting from inborn abnormality in artery wall

  • Drug use, particularly cocaine

  • Infection

  • Tumors

  • Traumatic head injury

  • Family history of brain aneurysms

  • Other inherited disorders: Ehler's Syndrome, Polycystic Kidney Disease, and Marfan's Syndrome

  • Presence of an arteriovenous malformation

Risk Factors that doctors and researchers believe contribute to the rupture of brain aneurysms:

  • Smoking

  • Hypertension

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    •  Brain Aneurysm Basics
    •  Risk Factors
    •  Warning Signs/Symptoms
    •  Detection Methods
    •  Unruptured Brain Aneurysms
    •  Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
    •  The Brain
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