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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ali, Zeeshan
• Ahmed, Syed Masroor
• Bhutto, Abdul Rabb
• Chaudhry, Azhar
• Munir, S M

Titel

Peripheral artery disease in type II diabetes

Ist Teil von

• Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan, 2012-11, Vol.22 (11), p.686-689

Ort / Verlag

Pakistan: College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To determine the frequency of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in type 2 diabetic patients. Cross-sectional observational study. Diabetes Clinic, Medical Unit III, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, from January to June 2010. Three hundred and eighty seven (387) type II diabetic patients of either gender and any age were included in the study. Patients with a previous history of trauma to the arterial vasculature, pregnancy and those who underwent arterial graft procedures were excluded. Non-purposive convenient sampling technique was used to enroll patients in the study. PAD was diagnosed when ankle-brachial index (ABI) was less than 0.9. A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Out of 387 studied patients, 128 were males (33.1%) and 259 were females (66.9%). Mean age was 52.22 ± 9.671 (22 - 76) years in the entire cohort. Mean duration of diabetes was 9.38 ± 6.39 years. PAD was detected in 152 (39.28%) of the total study subjects. Thirty-one of 128 male patients (24.22%) had PAD disease while 121 out of 259 female patients (46.71%) had evidence of PAD (p = 0.001). Hypertension was a significantly associated factor (p = 0.002). A high frequency of PAD was observed in the diabetic population particularly with hypertension and more prevalent in females.