Comparative Effectiveness of Medical Therapy, Supervised Exercise, and Revascularization for Patients With Intermittent Claudication: A Network Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are limited data on the comparative effectiveness of medical therapy, supervised exercise, and revascularization to improve walking and quality of life in patients with intermittent claudication (IC).

Hypothesis

Supervised exercise and revascularization was superior to medical therapy in IC.

Methods

We studied the comparative effectiveness of exercise training, medications, endovascular intervention, and surgical revascularization on outcomes including functional capacity (walking distance and timing), quality of life, and mortality. We searched PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews from January 1995 to August 2012 for relevant English-language studies. Two investigators independently collected data. Meta-analyses with random

SUBMITTER: Vemulapalli S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6711096 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature