Sites of peripheral vascular disease vary with gender
6th April 2016
By Clare Pain
Sites of peripheral vascular disease differ between men and women, an enormous study shows.
Women are 62% more likely than men to have peripheral arterial disease as measured by ankle-brachial index, the observational study of 3.6 million people who self-referred for screening for cardiovascular disease shows.
But women are at 10% lower risk than men of having carotid artery stenosis and far less