Profound influence of different methods for determination of the ankle brachial index on the prevalence estimate of peripheral arterial disease

BACKGROUND: The ankle brachial index (ABI) is an efficient tool for objectively documenting the presence of lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD). However, different methods exist for ABI calculation, which might result in varying PAD prevalence estimates. To address this question, we co...

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Autores principales: Lange, Stefan F, Trampisch, Hans-Joachim, Pittrow, David, Darius, Harald, Mahn, Matthias, Allenberg, Jens R, Tepohl, Gerhart, Haberl, Roman L, Diehm, Curt
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1950873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18293542
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-147

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