Lifetime Risk of Lower‐Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease Defined by Ankle‐Brachial Index in the United States

Lifetime Risk of Lower‐Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease Defined by Ankle‐Brachial Index in the United States

Background There are no available lifetime risk estimates of lower‐extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD). Methods and Results Using data from 6 US community‐based cohorts and the vital statistics, we estimated the prevalence and incidence of PAD, defined as an ankle‐brachial index < 0.90, at...

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Main Authors: Kunihiro Matsushita, Yingying Sang, Hongyan Ning, Shoshana H. Ballew, Eric K. Chow, Morgan E. Grams, Elizabeth Selvin, Matthew Allison, Michael Criqui, Josef Coresh, Donald M. Lloyd‐Jones, John T. Wilkins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-09-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
epidemiology
peripheral artery disease
risk factor
risk score
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.119.012177

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