Severe asymptomatic heart disease may accompany narrowing in leg arteries

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 01:56 in Health & Medicine

CHICAGO -- Results of a randomized, controlled clinical trial presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) reveal that one in five patients with narrowing or blockage in arteries that supply blood to the legs and other parts of the body also have significant but silent coronary artery disease.

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