Review of Article: Leeper, N.J., Myers, J., Zhou, M., Nead, K.T., Syed, A., Kojima, Y. … Cooke, J.P. (2013). Exercise capacity is the strongest predictor of mortality in patients with peripheral arterial disease. Journal of Vascular Surgery, 57, 728-33

With the growing prevalence of atherosclerotic disease, including peripheral artery disease (PAD), there is a high demand for predictive indicators which may assist in guiding therapies for patients with PAD. Patients with PAD are likely to die from coronary artery disease (CAD) or cerebrovascular disease, with 40% –60% of deaths from CAD and 10%–20% of deaths from stroke in this population.1 Patients with PAD have approximately three times the risk of death and cardiovascular event than patients without disease.
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