Artigo Acesso aberto Revisado por pares

Mortality over a Period of 10 Years in Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease

1992; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 326; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejm199202063260605

ISSN

1533-4406

Autores

Michael H. Criqui, Robert D. Langer, A Fronĕk, Heather Spencer Feigelson, Melville R. Klauber, Theresa McCann, Deirdre Browner,

Tópico(s)

Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics

Resumo

Previous investigators have observed a doubling of the mortality rate among patients with intermittent claudication, and we have reported a fourfold increase in the overall mortality rate among subjects with large-vessel peripheral arterial disease, as diagnosed by noninvasive testing. In this study, we investigated the association of large-vessel peripheral arterial disease with rates of mortality from all cardiovascular diseases and from coronary heart disease.

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