[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: Bélaye L, Lurel D, Ezelin F, Cassin F, Lutin J, Porcène JA, Helissey P, Blanchet-Deverly A Tags: J Mal Vasc Source Type: research
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