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Peripheral Arterial Disease

"Peripheral Arterial Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Lack of perfusion in the EXTREMITIES resulting from atherosclerosis. It is characterized by INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION, and an ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX of 0.9 or less.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Peripheral Arterial Disease" by people in this website by year, and whether "Peripheral Arterial Disease" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 77 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2020
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