Utility of ankle-brachial index in screening for peripheral arterial disease in rural India: A cross-sectional study and review of literature

BACKGROUND: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is an underdiagnosed illness often affecting the elderly population. Ankle brachial index (ABI) is a good diagnostic tool for PAD in outpatient practice, but remains underused. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients were recruited from an outpatient medical cam...

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Autores principales: Tummala, Ramyashree, Banerjee, Kinjal, Mahajan, Kapil, Ravakhah, Keyvan, Gupta, Anjan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Research Brief
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5993915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29716715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2017.07.012
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author Tummala, Ramyashree
Banerjee, Kinjal
Mahajan, Kapil
Ravakhah, Keyvan
Gupta, Anjan
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description BACKGROUND: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is an underdiagnosed illness often affecting the elderly population. Ankle brachial index (ABI) is a good diagnostic tool for PAD in outpatient practice, but remains underused. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients were recruited from an outpatient medical camp in rural India, and assessed for symptoms and pre-existing risk factors. Measured ABI ≤ 0.9 was considered abnormal and considered PAD. RESULTS: Out of 100 patients recruited, PAD was diagnosed in 57 patients. Associated risk factors were like age >55 years (67%), hypertension (66%), smoking (69%) and diabetes mellitus (35%) were common. CONCLUSION: PAD is a very common and underdiagnosed illness in rural India. A simple tool like ABI can help diagnosis in underserved areas.
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spelling pubmed-59939152019-03-01 Utility of ankle-brachial index in screening for peripheral arterial disease in rural India: A cross-sectional study and review of literature Tummala, Ramyashree Banerjee, Kinjal Mahajan, Kapil Ravakhah, Keyvan Gupta, Anjan Indian Heart J Research Brief BACKGROUND: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is an underdiagnosed illness often affecting the elderly population. Ankle brachial index (ABI) is a good diagnostic tool for PAD in outpatient practice, but remains underused. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients were recruited from an outpatient medical camp in rural India, and assessed for symptoms and pre-existing risk factors. Measured ABI ≤ 0.9 was considered abnormal and considered PAD. RESULTS: Out of 100 patients recruited, PAD was diagnosed in 57 patients. Associated risk factors were like age >55 years (67%), hypertension (66%), smoking (69%) and diabetes mellitus (35%) were common. CONCLUSION: PAD is a very common and underdiagnosed illness in rural India. A simple tool like ABI can help diagnosis in underserved areas. Elsevier 2018 2017-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5993915/ /pubmed/29716715 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2017.07.012 Text en © 2017 Cardiological Society of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Utility of ankle-brachial index in screening for peripheral arterial disease in rural India: A cross-sectional study and review of literature
title Utility of ankle-brachial index in screening for peripheral arterial disease in rural India: A cross-sectional study and review of literature
title_full Utility of ankle-brachial index in screening for peripheral arterial disease in rural India: A cross-sectional study and review of literature
title_fullStr Utility of ankle-brachial index in screening for peripheral arterial disease in rural India: A cross-sectional study and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Utility of ankle-brachial index in screening for peripheral arterial disease in rural India: A cross-sectional study and review of literature
title_short Utility of ankle-brachial index in screening for peripheral arterial disease in rural India: A cross-sectional study and review of literature
title_sort utility of ankle-brachial index in screening for peripheral arterial disease in rural india: a cross-sectional study and review of literature
topic Research Brief
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5993915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29716715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2017.07.012
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