Abstract P306: Proportion of Community-dwelling Older Adults Potentially Benefiting From the Detection of Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) With Ankle-Brachial Index: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

Yijing Feng,Shoshana H. Ballew,Corey A. Kalbaugh,Michelle L. Meyer,Hirofumi Tanaka,Gerardo Heiss,Mathew Allison,Maya Salameh,Josef Coresh,Kunihiro Matsushita

Abstract P306: Proportion of Community-dwelling Older Adults Potentially Benefiting From the Detection of Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) With Ankle-Brachial Index: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

2019

Yijing Feng
Shoshana H. Ballew
Corey A. Kalbaugh
Michelle L. Meyer
Hirofumi Tanaka
Gerardo Heiss
Mathew Allison
Maya Salameh
Josef Coresh
Kunihiro Matsushita

Background: The value of detecting PAD using the ankle-brachial index (ABI) among asymptomatic adults is controversial. However, the detection of PAD can help informing cardiovascular preventive th...

Keywords:

Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities
Cardiology
Disease
Ankle
Diabetes mellitus
Peripheral
Internal medicine
Medicine
arterial disease
aric study

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