Global, regional, and national prevalence and risk factors for peripheral artery disease in 2015: an updated systematic review and analysis

Publication date: August 2019Source: The Lancet Global Health, Volume 7, Issue 8Author(s): Peige Song, Diana Rudan, Yajie Zhu, Freya J I Fowkes, Kazem Rahimi, F Gerald R Fowkes, Igor RudanSummaryBackgroundPeripheral artery disease is a major cardiovascular disease that affected 202 million people worldwide in 2010. In the past decade, new epidemiological data on peripheral artery disease have emerged, enabling us to provide updated estimates of the prevalence and risk factors for peripheral artery disease globally and regionally and, for the first time, nationally.MethodsFor this systematic review and analysis, we did a comprehensive literature search for studies reporting on the prevalence of peripheral artery disease in the general population that were published between Jan 1, 2011, and April 30, 2019, in PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase, the Global Health database, CINAHL, the Global Health Library, the Allied and Complementary Medicine Database, and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global. We also included the Global Peripheral Artery Disease Study of 2013 and the China Peripheral Artery Disease Study as sources. Peripheral artery disease had to be defined as an ankle–brachial index lower than or equal to 0·90. With a purpose-built data collection form, data on study characteristics, sample characteristics, prevalence, and risk factors were abstracted from all the included studies identified from the sources. Age-specific and sex-specific prevalence of peripheral artery diseas...
Source: The Lancet Global Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research