Peripheral Vascular Disease

Welcome to the Peripheral Vascular Disease Community!

AHA Peripheral Vascular Disease Community Editor
Dr. Alan T. Hirsch, MD, FAHA

The New Council on PVD
This new site also acknowledges the fundamental importance of this year?s transition from being merely a "IWG" or "Interdisciplinary Working Group" to being a full Interdisciplinary Council within the American Heart Association (AHA). Our AHA Councils have long served as professional guides that provide expertise to AHA, the nation, and the public as we seek to accomplish our mission to diminish the impact of cardiovascular disease on individual and community health. AHA has also always been fundamentally interdisciplinary. In this frame, our Peripheral Vascular Disease IWG has not been unique. However, the professional vascular health community has been both strengthened and challenged by the more fundamental distinctions between different types of vascular specialists that are engaged during training and often sustained throughout a career. Though our missions are identical, our training and tools are not. This IWG will serve as a unique resource to all vascular health professionals who seek comprehensive access to all of the best science, clinical tools, and colleagues. Join us! Stay active!

Not Just Clogged Coronaries: Recognizing Atherosclerosis as a Head-to-Toe Problem

Atherosclerosis in Patients Living with HIV/AIDS

Cardiovascular Risk Factor Reduction: Where Are We Going?

Telmisartan, Ramipril, or Both in Patients at High Risk for Vascular Events

Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis of Carotid Atherosclerosis in an Intercross Between C57BL/6 and C3H Apolipoprotein E-Deficient Mice

The Role of Immunity and Inflammation in the Progression of Atherosclerosis in Patients with HIV Infection

Association of Asymptomatic Peripheral Arterial Disease With Vascular Events in Patients With Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack

Souvik Sen, MD, MS, MPH, FAHA; Donald R. Lynch, Jr, MD; Effie Kaltsas, DO; Jennifer Simmons, BSW; Walter A. Tan, MD, MS; Jongyeol Kim, MD, MS; James Beck, PhD; Wayne Rosamond, PhD

Stroke. Published online ahead of print Aug 27, 2009.

Gaps in Public Knowledge of Peripheral Arterial Disease: The First National PAD Public Awareness Survey

Circulation. 2007;116:2086-2094

Asymptomatic Peripheral Arterial Disease Is Associated With More Adverse Lower Extremity Characteristics Than Intermittent Claudication

Mary M. McDermott, MD; Jack M. Guralnik, MD, PhD; Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD; Lu Tian, ScD; Kiang Liu, PhD; Yihua Liao, MS; David Green, MD, PhD; Robert Sufit, MD; Frederick Hoff, MD; Takashi Nishida, MD; Leena Sharma, MD; William H. Pearce, MD; Joseph R. Schneider, MD, PhD; Michael H. Criqui, MD, MPH

Circulation. 2008;117:2484-2491

Serum Total Bilirubin Level and Prevalent Lower-Extremity Peripheral Arterial Disease National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999 to 2004

Todd S. Perlstein; Reena L. Pande; Joshua A. Beckman; Mark A. Creager

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 2007.

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