One simple claudication question as first step in Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) screening: A meta-analysis of the association with reduced Ankle Brachial Index (ABI) in 27,945 subjects

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 14; no. 11; p. e0224608
• Main Authors: Kieback, Arne Georg, Espinola-Klein, Christine, Lamina, Claudia, Moebus, Susanne, Tiller, Daniel, Lorbeer, Roberto, Schulz, Andreas, Meisinger, Christa, Medenwald, Daniel, Erbel, Raimund, Kluttig, Alexander, Wild, Philipp S., Kronenberg, Florian, Kröger, Knut, Ittermann, Till, Dörr, Marcus
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 04.11.2019; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Ankle; Ankle Brachial Index; Biology and Life Sciences; Cardiology; Cardiovascular disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Consortia; Data analysis; Diabetes; Epidemiology; Female; Gender differences; Health care; Humans; Informatics; Intermittent Claudication - diagnosis; Intermittent Claudication - etiology; Intermittent Claudication - physiopathology; Male; Mass Screening - methods; Medicine and Health Sciences; Meta-analysis; Morbidity; Mortality; Pain; People and Places; Peripheral Arterial Disease - complications; Peripheral Arterial Disease - diagnosis; Peripheral Arterial Disease - physiopathology; Physical Sciences; Population; Preventive medicine; Questionnaires; Questions; Regression analysis; Research and Analysis Methods; Screening; Sensitivity and Specificity; Sex Factors; Signs and symptoms; Smoking cessation; Surveys and Questionnaires; Walking; Walking - physiology; Austria; Germany

A meta-analysis using data from seven German population-based cohorts was performed by the German Epidemiological consortium of Peripheral Arterial Disease (GEPArD) to investigate whether one question about claudication is more efficient for PAD screening than established questionnaires. Claudicatio...