Novel risk factors for premature peripheral arterial occlusive disease in non-diabetic patients: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aimed to determine the prevalence of genetic and environmental vascular risk factors in non diabetic patients with premature peripheral arterial disease, either peripheral arterial occlusive disease or thromboangiitis obliterans, the two main entities of peripheral arterial disease, and to established whether some of them are specifically associated with one or another of the premature peripheral arterial disease subgroups.

Methods and results

This study included 113 non diabetic patients with premature peripheral arterial disease (diagnosis <45-year old) presenting either a peripheral arterial occlusive disease (N = 64) or a thromboangiitis obliterans (N = 49), and 241 controls matched for age and gender. Both patient groups demonstrated common traits

SUBMITTER: Berard AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3606168 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature