Smoking & PAD: Assessing the Costs
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is one of the most common cardiovascular diseases among adults in...
Feb 5, 2016
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is one of the most common cardiovascular diseases among adults in...
Nov 10, 2014
Aorto-iliac peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a serious condition in which blood flow to the...
Jul 22, 2013
When the ankle-brachial index (ABI) emerged in 1950, it was initially proposed for use as a...
Feb 28, 2013
Research from Michigan suggests that use of statins and aspirin prior to percutaneous revascularization among patients with peripheral arterial disease, or PAD, appears to reduce the number of peripheral vascular events by more...
Dec 25, 2012
Smoking, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and type 2 diabetes appear to be the cardiovascular...
Nov 29, 2012
About 8 million people in the United States have peripheral artery disease (PAD), a condition that, if left untreated, increases heart attack and stroke risks, severely limits walking ability, and causes tissue death requiring...
May 16, 2011
Use of a post-exercise ankle brachial index (ABI) appears to be a powerful independent predictor of all-cause mortality among patients with peripheral arterial disease, or PAD, and provides additional risk stratification beyond...
May 2, 2011
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) affects an estimated 8 to 10 million Americans, a number that is expected to increase as the population ages and as diabetes and obesity become more prevalent. Clinical research has shown that...
Dec 9, 2010
Clinical practice guidelines for treatment of lower extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD) include a Class I recommendation for supervised exercise training for patients with intermittent claudication (IC). Prospective...
Nov 30, 2010
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a clinical manifestation of atherosclerosis, which occurs when atherosclerotic plaque narrows arteries and decreases blood flow to the legs. An estimated 8 to 10 million people have PAD, and...
Nov 16, 2010
The Society of Interventional Radiology held its 2010 annual meeting from March 13 to 18 in Tampa, Florida. The features below highlight some of the news emerging from the meeting. For more information on these items and other...
Jun 14, 2010
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a highly prevalent but largely undiagnosed condition that affects an estimated 27 million people in Europe and North America. Caused by atherosclerotic occlusion of the leg arteries, PAD is...