Diabetes as a risk factor for incident peripheral arterial disease in women compared to men: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aims/hypothesis

Previous meta-analyses have suggested that diabetes confers a greater excess risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, vascular dementia, and heart failure in women compared to men. While the underlying mechanism that explains such greater excess risk is unknown, in the current meta-analysis we hypothesized that we would find a similar sex difference in the relationship between diabetes and peripheral arterial disease (PAD).

Methods

PubMed MEDLINE, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and Embase were systematically searched for prospective population-based cohort studies, with no restriction on publication date, language, or country. We included studies that reported the relative risk (RR), and its variability, for incident PAD associated with diabetes

SUBMITTER: Chase-Vilchez AZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7520021 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature