Associations of symptomatic or asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality

Associations of symptomatic or asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality

Background: To investigate the rate of all cause and cardiovascular mortality in patients with symptomatic or asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease (PAD) compared to those without PAD. Methods and results: All the subjects were inpatients at high risk of atherosclerosis and enrolled from February...

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Main Authors: Eid M. Daoud, Mahmoud M. Ramadan, Nader El-Shahhat, Ayman A. Abd El-Samad, Nader El-Malkey, Sherif A. Sakr, Insaf Bassam, Hazem Hakeem, Asmaa Eneen, Adel El-Badrawy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2011-03-01
Series:The Egyptian Heart Journal
Subjects:
Peripheral arterial disease
Ankle brachial index
All-cause mortality
Cardiovascular mortality
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110260811000238

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