Sunday, December 20, 2009

Life Line Screening Data on Peripheral Arterial Disease Validated

Data from Life Line Screening corroborates analysis afresh presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology's anniversary accurate meeting: The accent of the ankle-brachial basis in anecdotic high-risk individuals ahead anticipation to be at low-risk for cardiovascular ache was confirmed.

Independence, OH (Vocus/PRWEB ) March 25, 2009 -- An appraisal of about 1 actor Life Line Screening participants confirms the allegation afresh presented at the Society for Interventional Radiology's anniversary affair on the accent of the ankle-brachial basis to analyze individuals ahead anticipation to be at low accident for cardiovascular ache and accurately allocation them as possibly high-risk.

We are admiring to see the contempo allegation presented at the appointment reflect our own centralized data We accept continued doubtable that the low accident adumbrated by a Framingham may burrow the accurate accident as appear by added screenings such as the ankle-brachial index. We allotment the researchers' affect that accurately anecdotic accident is acute to instituting affairs changes and medical administration afore a austere bloom accident occurs or added cher analysis options are necessary. The allegation presented at the appointment came from the 1999-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a nationally adumbrative cross-sectional analysis of the U.S. population. It looked at 6,292 men and women ages 40 and earlier with no accepted history of affection disease, stroke, diabetes or atherosclerotic vascular disease. It begin that the use of the Ankle ankle-brachial index, a screening for borderline arterial disease, has the abeyant to anticipate affection attacks in bags originally anticipation to be at low risk.

Life Line Screening's abstracts supports these findings. Analyzing abstracts from about 900,000 participants from 2007, Life Line Screening begin that 474,000 would be advised low-risk based on a acceptable Framingham score. Of that "low-risk" group, added than 9,000 denticulate absolute for peripheral arterial disease, advertence the attendance of subclinical atherosclerosis.

Similar to those in the NHANES study, Life Line Screening participants are commonly age 50 and earlier and are asymptomatic.

"We are admiring to see the contempo allegation presented at the appointment reflect our own centralized data," says Chief Medical Officer Andrew Manganaro, MD, FACS, FACC. "We accept continued doubtable that the low accident adumbrated by a Framingham may burrow the accurate accident as appear by added screenings such as the ankle-brachial index. We allotment the researchers' affect that accurately anecdotic accident is acute to instituting affairs changes and medical administration afore a austere bloom accident occurs or added cher analysis options are necessary."

About Life Line Screening:
Life Line Screening is the nation's arch provider of community-based antitoxin bloom screenings and has a primary focus on achievement blockage and the aboriginal apprehension of subclinical atherosclerosis.

Life Line Screening aswell provides screening for C-reactive protein, addition atypical accident agency apparent to advance accident anticipation by the SIR researchers.

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