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Ankle-brachial index and peripheral arterial disease.
Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Arzte des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany)) - 1 Aug 2005
Lamina C, Meisinger C, Heid I M, Rantner B, Döring A, Löwel H, Wichmann H E, Kronenberg F
Abstract excerpt
Patients with peripheral arterial disease including those with intermittent claudication have a high risk for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular morbidity and mortality. The outcome of patients with intermittent claudication is less limited by local complications in the leg than by the systemic complications of coronary and cerebral vessels. About 30 % of these patients will die within 5 years, three-quarters of...
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