Age and gender influence risk for certain peripheral vascular diseases
Saturday, April 2, 2016 - 13:50
in Health & Medicine
New findings from large-scale studies of more than 3.6 million people who underwent screening for cardiovascular disease reveals that a person's age and gender affects the prevalence of certain types of peripheral vascular diseases (PVD), and that diabetes is a major risk factor for developing these diseases, even in patients without heart disease.