Open AccessEffects of Three Different Methods Defining Onset of Peripheral Artery Disease on the Assessments of Incidence and Important Predictors – Results from the German Epidemiological Trial on Ankle Brachial Index (getABI)
Author(s) -
Alexander Lupilov,
D. Krause,
Renate Klaaßen-Mielke,
Hans–Joachim Trampisch,
Henrik Rudolf
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
vascular health and risk management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.892
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1178-2048
pISSN - 1176-6344
DOI - 10.2147/vhrm.s307675
Subject(s) - medicine , asymptomatic , epidemiology , incidence (geometry) , hazard ratio , proportional hazards model , ankle , linear regression , confidence interval , surgery , statistics , physics , mathematics , optics
The common definition of asymptomatic peripheral artery disease (PAD) by a single determination of the ankle brachial index (ABI) has some uncertainty due to measurement errors. This may impact estimates of PAD incidence and assessment of PAD risk factors. To investigate this issue, we used three methods to define asymptomatic PAD and made use of data from the German Epidemiological Trial on Ankle Brachial Index (getABI).