Global and regional burden of death and disability from peripheral artery disease: 21 world regions, 1990 to 2010.

UK, Sampson; FG, Fowkes; MM, McDermott; MH, Criqui; V, Aboyans; PE, Norman; MH, Forouzanfar; M, Naghavi; Y, Song; FE Jr, Harrell; JO, Denenberg; GA, Mensah; M, Ezzati; C, Murray

doi:10.1016/j.gheart.2013.12.008

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Global and regional burden of death and disability from peripheral artery disease: 21 world regions, 1990 to 2010.

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Authors:

Sampson UK

Fowkes FG

McDermott MM

Abstract

A comprehensive and systematic assessment of disability and mortality due to lower extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD) is lacking. Therefore, we estimated PAD deaths, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), and years of life lost in 21 regions worldwide for 1990 and 2010. We used the GBD (Glob...

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