title: Intermittent claudication--epidemiology and natural history.
abstract: Epidemiological information on the prevalence, incidence and natural history of intermittent claudication and peripheral vascular disease is limited, partially by the limitation of techniques of their study. The available data from the literature are review and supplemented by results from an on-going survey the ankle blood pressure measurement with Doppler ultrasound.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001530:Belgium; D001794:Blood Pressure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007383:Intermittent Claudication / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires