Peripheral Artery Disease

Peripheral artery disease is due to a blockage of small or medium arteries that gives off blood to the rest of the body. This disease, especially affects the lower extremities and tend to be common. Patients with this peripheral artery disease (PAD) is at greater risk of myocardial infarctions and strokes. PAD affects is known to affect at least 29% of the population and the chance of you getting it, increases with age. Also gender, cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, smoking and high blood glucose levels are factors that increase the chances of having peripheral artery disease PAD and atherosclerotic are usually systemic. T lymphocytes, monocytes and neutrophils are involved in atherogenesis. They mediate the inflammatory response. Because of that, these scientists believe that the ratio neutrophils to lymphocytes can determine the complexity of PAD. The scientist performed a peripheral angiography using a catheter on 343 patients and separated them into four groups. They would not perform it for people who had known infections, inflammatory conditions, cancer, and diabetic ulcers on the lower extremities. The end of the catheters were placed over the aorto-iliac bifurcation. …show more content…
However, lymphocytes were poorly related. The ratio neutrophils to lymphocytes is an independent marker of the complexity of PAD.
I found this article very important and interesting because peripheral artery disease is a very dangerous disease and can last for years or even a lifetime. I know exercise and diet play a very important role in prevention, but once you have it an easy blood count test can give you information on how bad it currently is. Some people do not realize they even have it, until it is out of controlled. I wanted to know more about it, because it runs in African Americans more than any other racial