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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: Ehlers-Danlos 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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