Incidence, natural history and cardiovascular events in symptomatic and asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease in the general population

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1172-1180

  Leng, Gillian C ^a   Lee, Amanda J ^a   Fowkes, F Gerald R ^a   Whiteman, Martha ^a   Dunbar, Janet ^a   Housley, Edward ^b   Vaughan Ruckley, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS LOTHIAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Morbidity; Mortality; Natural history; Peripheral atherosclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANKLE; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; INCIDENCE; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LEG ULCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM; VASCULAR SURGERY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGED; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND;

EID: 0030470140     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/25.6.1172     Document Type: Article

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