Ethnic differences in lower limb revascularisation and amputation rates. Implications for the aetiopathology of atherosclerosis?

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 503-507

  Ahmad, Naseer ^a   Thomas, G Neil ^b   Chan, Colin ^a   Gill, Paramjit ^b  

^a Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amputation; Ethnicity; Peripheral vascular disease; Prevalence; Revascularisation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; AFRICA; AGED; AMPUTATION; ASIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLACK PERSON; CARIBBEAN; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETHNOLOGY; LEG; LIMB SALVAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION; VASCULARIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AFRICA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ASIA, WESTERN; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARIBBEAN REGION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENGLAND; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84896258520     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2013.12.039     Document Type: Article

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