Abstract

NETO, Silvestre Savino  and  DO NASCIMENTO, José Luis Martins. Peripheral vascular disease: new perspectives of risk factors. Rev. Para. Med. [online]. 2007, vol.21, n.2, pp.35-39. ISSN 0101-5907.

OBEJECTIVE: The Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) presents 10 to 25% prevalence in the over 55-year-old population, with increased death risk due to cardiovascular disease. This study aims at updating the main risk factors of the disease, the inflammatory indicators and the states of hypercoagulability, with the purpose of demonstrating the importance of the precocious diagnostic for its treatment as well as for the prognostic of vascular diseases in other territories. METHOD: Going through bibliographic review on the topic, consulting the international database Medline, LILACS, selecting the epidemiologic studies, basic science and clinical evidence studies. COCLUSION: the peripheral vascular disease is an atherosclerotic systemic disease, associated to high morbidity and mortality however, still scarcely diagnosed and treated. The advanced age, smoking and diabetes are its main risk factors. The great advance in the cellular and molecular biology fields in determining inflammatory index and states of hypercoaguability in PVD shall provide us with answers towards its development, management and new preventive strategies.

Keywords : peripheral vascular disease; epidemiology; atherosclerosis.

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