[Lower limb peripheral arterial disease in 268 patients in Guadeloupe].

CONCLUSION: In our population, an infrapopliteal site was more often found than a proximal site. Distal localization was associated with diabetes, and proximal localization with smoking. Cardiovascular risk factors exhibited an atypical pattern with a large majority of patients (88 %) having high blood pressure, two-thirds diabetes, but with very few (7 %) smokers. Peripheral arterial disease was more often associated with a history of stroke than with ischemic heart disease. PMID: 27289257 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal des Maladies Vasculaires - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: J Mal Vasc Source Type: research