Diagnosis of peripheral vascular disease for diabetic foot risk assessment

Discussion Normative data in a healthy younger population is an important adjunct to clinical reviews and the method used to determine abnormal blood flow. Of interest is that the ABPI results fall between 0.91 and 1.17 suggesting that the currently used lower cut-off of 0.9 is appropriate but that that the higher cut-off could be moved down from 1.3 for clinical decision making.
Source: Wound Medicine - Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research