Peripheral Artery Disease and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the Elderly

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Abstract
Peripheral vascular disease as measured by the ankle/brachial blood pressure index (ABI) is associated with increased risk of mortality and morbidity. Few sources of data on the relationship of risk factors to ABI are available for the elderly, especially those >80 years of age, and minority populations. ABI measurements from the Honolulu Heart Program's fourth reexamination of 3450 ambulatory, elderly Japanese American men indicate that the prevalence of an abnormal ABI, defined as a ratio of P <.05 for all ORs). These findings are consistent with ABI being a marker for generalized atherosclerotic disease in old and very old Japanese American men.