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Walking Program Slows Decline in Peripheral Artery Disease

Posted: Monday, January 23, 2006

Results of a new study show that just ninety minutes of walking a week, made up of three or more therapeutic walks, may slow the progress of lower extremity peripheral arterial disease.

Peripheral Arterial Disease Guidelines Push Early Diagnosis

Posted: Wednesday, December 14, 2005

In an effort to increase PAD awareness among clinicians and patients, a coalition of medical and surgical vascular specialists, led by the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology, unveiled a document on PAD from A to Z. The guideline addresses prevention, diagnosis and management of lower extremity PAD, renal arterial disease, mesenteric arterial disease, as well as aneurysm of the abdominal aorta, its branch vessels and the lower extremities

PAD (Peripheral Arterial Disease)Screening Not Being Utilized for People with Diabetes

Posted: Friday, September 09, 2005

PAD screening is essential for diabetics in order to prevent amputation, heart attack and stroke, because one-third have PAD, but most do not present classic symptoms

Availability Of Vascular Surgeons Impacts Amputation Rate

Posted: Friday, July 22, 2005

Patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) are more likely to have a foot or leg amputated if they live in a region that has few vascular surgeons

Availability Of Vascular Surgeons Impacts Amputation Rate

Posted: Friday, July 22, 2005

Patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) are more likely to have a foot or leg amputated if they live in a region that has few vascular surgeons

Increased Risk for Peripheral Arterial Disease Mortality in Patients With Diabetes

Posted: Friday, March 11, 2005

Persons with both peripheral arterial disease and diabetes had an adjusted risk of death greater than two-fold that for persons with peripheral arterial disease alone.

Diabetes Tests 'Offer Cure Hope'

Posted: Thursday, December 09, 2004

Some patients have already been cured by islet cell transplants, but a major obstacle is a shortage of donor pancreases to harvest the cells from.
Now National Institute of Health scientists say they have found a way to make more of the cells required.

One-Third of Patients Older Than 50 With Diabetes Have PAD

Posted: Thursday, December 09, 2004

Patients with diabetes and PAD have already developed evidence of atherosclerosis and are at increased risk for myocardial infarction, stroke, or cardiovascular death, even without symptoms.

New Additional Test Recommended For Those With Diabetes: ABC’s + P

Posted: Thursday, February 05, 2004

This year, specialists for the first time are urging every diabetic over age 50 to get tested for the leg disease, called peripheral arterial disease or PAD. One in three diabetics over the age of 50 may already have PAD. Diabetics may have to ask for the PAD test, called an ankle brachial index. It's unlikely that primary care physicians yet have heard to add it to the list of tests for diabetics