Mortality and Vascular Morbidity in Older Adults With Asymptomatic Versus Symptomatic Peripheral Artery Disease

Diehm, Curt; R. Allenberg, Jens; Pittrow, David; Mahn, Matthias; Tepohl, Gerhart; L. Haberl, Roman; Darius, Harald; Burghaus, Ina; J. Trampisch, Hans

doi:10.1161/circulationaha.109.865600

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Mortality and Vascular Morbidity in Older Adults With Asymptomatic Versus Symptomatic Peripheral Artery Disease

Published in Circulation • Nov 10, 2009

Authors:

Curt Diehm

Jens R. Allenberg

David Pittrow

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Our aim was to assess the mortality and vascular morbidity risk of elderly individuals with asymptomatic versus symptomatic peripheral artery disease (PAD) in the primary care setting. METHODS AND RESULTS: This prospective cohort study included 6880 representative unselected patients >or...

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Medicine

Hazard ratio

Asymptomatic

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