The association between diabetes and PAD became more pronounced with severity of disease (adjusted ORs: mild PAD, 1.37; moderate PAD, 1.77; severe PAD, 2.16; P for trend < 0.001).
Presence of mild PAD at baseline increased the risk of a first major amputation 20-fold, moderate PAD 34-fold, and severe PAD 62-fold (Table 3, model 2) relative to no PAD.
The most common symptom of mild-to-moderate PAD is intermittent claudication, which is present in about one third of symptomatic patients [ 1].
However, a meta-analysis of 11 randomized controlled studies found that beta blockers do not adversely effect walking capacity or the symptoms of intermittent claudication in persons with mild-to-moderate PAD (Radack et al 1991).
The PAD patients had moderate hope scores on the NHS.
The PAD patients had moderate hope values on the NHS with a mean score of 84.9 (range 52 102, of a possible total score of 116).
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Determination of the AAI also allows the quantification of the severity of PAD: mild (AAI = 0.7 – 0.9), moderate (AAI = 0.5 – 0.69) and severe stenosis (AAI = <0.5).
The impact of the concurrent tasks varied with disease severity, with the central executive deficit prominent at disease onset, but the visuo-spatial sketch pad deficit becoming apparent only in the moderate stages of the illness.
Hoffa-synovitis at the infrapatellar and intercondylar sites was graded 0 to 3 according to the degree of signal changes in Hoffa's fat pad (0 = none; 1 = mild; 2 = moderate; 3 = severe).
