Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) is a disease that results in narrowing (stenosis) or blockage (occlusion) in the arteries that carry blood to the lower extremities (legs) due to progressive atherosclerosis (vascular calcification or hardening), resulting in fatal complications (A It is a serious "vascular" disease that adds to the disease and aggravates the disease during the course of the disease and even results in death. This disease, whose frequency is increasing in relation to the increase in human life expectancy, is thought to affect more than 30 (thirty) million people on our planet (Earth). In a study conducted in the Aegean Region of our country[1], the prevalence of this disease in the general population was found to be 19.7%. In other words, roughly one in every five adults (1/5) is at risk of contracting this disease one day! People with risk factors up to the age of sixty-five (65) have a 2.4 times higher risk of developing PAD than those without, and after the age of sixty-five (65), it is more than 4 times more common. The prevalence of PAH is 25.8% in men and 17.2% in women. So men are more at risk than women.
So what are the identified risk factors for PAH? Male gender, older age (especially 65 years and above), smoking or tobacco use, hyperlipidemia (high blood fat level), hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes mellitus (diabetes mellitus) and metabolic syndrome (SYNDROME X) are risk factors for PAH. In the METABOLIC SYNDROME GUIDE published in 2009 by the TURKISH ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM SOCIETY METABOLIC SYNDROME WORKING GROUP [2]; Metabolic syndrome, abdominal obesity (fat around the belly) starting with insulin resistance, glucose intolerance (this definition, popularly known as hidden sugar, is an evaluation used when the individual's blood sugar is at values between normal blood sugar and diabetic blood sugar) or diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, hypertension. It is a fatal endocrinopathy in which systemic disorders such as coronary artery disease (CAD) and coronary artery disease (CAD) are added together.
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