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Vascular Diseases – Peripheral/Aorta

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Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a common yet vastly underdiagnosed condition that is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Because atherosclerosis is a systemic disease, the presence of PAD, whether symptomatic or not, is associated with a two- to fourfold increase in the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke and cardiovascular death [1–3]. More timely diagnosis of PAD in the primary care setting has the potential not only to improve quality of life by helping to alleviate the lifestyle-impairing symptoms often associated with the disease, but also to identify individuals at high risk for cardiac and cerebrovascular events providing the opportunity to initiate effective life-saving therapies at an earlier stage [4].

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  1. Department of Cardiology and Vascular Surgery, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY, USA

    Craig R. Narins

  2. Department of Cardiology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA

    Jason D. Pacos

  3. Department of Surgery, Highland Hospital, Rochester, NY, USA

    Theodore I. Hirokawa

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Narins, C.R., Pacos, J.D., Hirokawa, T.I. (2012). Vascular Diseases – Peripheral/Aorta. In: Bisognano, J., Beck, R., Connell, R. (eds) Manual of Outpatient Cardiology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-944-4_12

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