Risk factors for symptomatic peripheral arterial disease in older persons in an academic hospital-based geriatrics practice

Article Abstract:

Age, cigarette smoking, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, serum LDL cholesterol and low serum HDL cholesterol are significant independent risk factors for symptomatic peripheral arterial disease in older persons, according to results of a retrospective analysis of charts from an outpatient geriatrics patient. The study involved 467 men with a mean age of 80 and 1444 women with a mean age of 81.

Aged, Elderly, Statistical Data Included, Risk factors, Diseases

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Prevalence of coronary artery disease, atherothrombotic brain infarction, and peripheral arterial disease: associated risk factors in older Hispanics in an academic hospital-based geriatrics practice

Article Abstract:

Many elderly Hispanics have some type of cardiovascular disease. A study of 213 Hispanics aged 64 to 100 found that 28% had coronary artery disease, 20% had atherothrombotic brain infarction and 16% had peripheral arterial disease. Altogether, 42% had one of these diseases. These diseases were linked to age, smoking, hypertension, diabetes, obesity and blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels.

Health aspects, Cardiovascular diseases, Demographic aspects, Coronary heart disease, Stroke (Disease), Stroke, Hispanic Americans

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Prevalence of coexistence of coronary artery disease, ischemic stroke, and peripheral arterial disease in older persons, mean age 80 years, in an academic hospital-based geriatrics practice

Article Abstract:

About 32% of older people diagnosed with coronary artery diseases also had ischemic stroke, while 26% had peripheral arterial disease. In those diagnosed with ischemic stroke, 56% also had coronary artery disease and 28% peripheral arterial diseases. If peripheral arterial disease was present, coronary artery disease was also present in 68% and ischemic stroke in 42% of the population.

United States, Statistics, Stroke patients

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