Risk of peripheral artery disease according to race and sex: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

Previous community-based studies have demonstrated sex and race-based disparities in the risk of cardiovascular disease. We sought to examine the association of sex and race with incident peripheral artery disease (PAD) and critical limb ischemia (CLI) related hospitalizations.

Source: Atherosclerosis - March 29, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Caitlin W. Hicks, Ning Ding, Lucia Kwak, Shoshana H. Ballew, Corey A. Kalbaugh, Aaron R. Folsom, Gerardo Heiss, Josef Coresh, James H. Black, Elizabeth Selvin, Kunihiro Matsushita Source Type: research