Peripheral Vascular Disease in Younger People

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Peripheral vascular disease in younger people is a relatively new development.

Peripheral Vascular Disease Becoming Common

Peripheral vascular disease becoming more common, is alarming enough, but the idea that this occurs in middle aged people is cause for concern. When it is severe it is life threatening. The disease causes a narrowing in blood vessels that carry blood to the arms, legs, kidneys, and stomach.

According to a new study vascular disease may be much more common in younger American adults and women than previously suspected, according to a new study.

Data     

Researchers analyzed data on 994 men and women, age 55 and younger, treated in the Wake Forest University School of Medicine Vascular Center, between 1998 and 2009. They found that most of them had premature atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Severe premature arterial disease of the legs (64 percent) was the most common finding.

Among the other findings:

• 130 patients had undergone surgery to unblock the carotid artery and improve blood flow from the heart to the brain.
• 87 patients had mesenteric vascular disease — a narrowing or blockage of one or more of the three major arteries that supply blood to the small and large intestines.
• 49 patients had repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms, which occur when a large blood vessel supplying blood to the abdomen, pelvis and legs swells and is in danger of bursting.
• 46 patients had restricted blood flow in the arms because of an embolism or blocked blood vessels in wrist and/or palm.
• 19 patients had Buerger’s disease, a rare disease of the arteries and veins of the arms and legs that can lead to infection, gangrene and amputation. The condition is strongly linked to smoking and the use of snuff and chewing tobacco.
• 192 patients (19 percent) had arterial disease in multiple organs.
• Advanced damage from hardening of the arteries was present in 88 percent of the patients.

The American Way

The findings suggest a need for better detection of early clinical signs of systemic atherosclerosis, researchers said.

The study is to be presented at an American Heart Association conference in San Francisco.

This is pure medical thinking, detecting and treating the symptoms of a systematic problem solves it. This is a disease of the mouth, fed by the food industry, and treated by the medical industry.

Unblocking an artery is not only a short term solution; it holds risks for the patient. Medicine is a stop gap measure, that doesn’t change the affliction.

All the major advancements in the detection and treatments still do not change the potential outcome. It may buy time, but it doesn’t offer real health benefits.

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