Search results for "Peripheral Artery Disease"
An easy screen for an overlooked disease
Peripheral artery disease affects up to 12% of the U.S. population, but is often under-diagnosed and inadequately treated. ... Aspirin for the prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with peripheral artery disease.
April 2011
Peripheral artery disease
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2021/04/13/6.htm. A randomized trial found that patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) assigned to high-intensity walking significantly improved their distances on ... Six-minute walking distance did not
April 2021
New drugs for diabetes, secondary prevention of CV events
to reduce risk of heart attack, stroke, cardiovascular death, and need for revascularization in patients with a previous heart attack or peripheral artery disease. ... Vorapaxar (Zontivity) to reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, cardiovascular death,
July 2014
Overlooking PAD in primary care
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2011/04/editors.htm. Peripheral artery disease is a common, and significant, problem estimated to affect up to 12% of people in the United States. ... Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a common, and significant, problem
April 2011
Pearls for lowering lipids
In the trials, patients at the highest risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events (acute coronary syndrome, myocardial infarction, stroke, angina, peripheral artery disease, or coronary revascularization) gained the most benefit from
July 2016
Heparin labeling changed, non-egg flu vaccine approved
It was approved based on data from the ADVANCE trial. The Zilver PTX stent, the first drug-eluting stent indicated to re-open the femoropopliteal artery when narrowed or blocked as ... a result of peripheral artery disease.
February 2013
Letter to the Editor
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2011/05/letter.htm. A reader responds about physical exams for PAD. The author of the fine article on peripheral artery disease (PAD) [“An easy screen for ... an overlooked disease,” ACP Internist, April 2011]
May 2011
Preventive aspirin inflames opinions
Besides recommending aspirin in all patients with coronary artery disease unless contraindicated, the guidelines suggested starting patients on the antiplatelet medication after an acute coronary syndrome or an angioplasty involving a ... Aspirin alone
May 2015
Treating skin ulcers in the office
Unfortunately, we're not making very good progress on this.”. He pointed to a study, published in 2019 by CMAJ, finding that lower-extremity amputations related to diabetes, peripheral artery disease ... I would say the data is still inconclusive, but
June 2020
Guiding clinicians through GI diagnoses
Attendees at Digestive Disease Week head to sessions on dyspepsia, weight loss and incontinence. ... These patients were likely to be on aspirin-anticoagulant-antiplatelet therapy for a history of ischemic heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and
September 2009