Relationship between a Low Ankle Brachial Index and All-Cause Death and Cardiovascular Events in Subjects with and without Diabetes

Abstract

A low ABI exhibits significant cross-sectional associations with conventional risk factors and further more with the glomerular filtration rate, uric acid level and presence of prevalent CVD at baseline, and a low ABI independently predicts subsequent death and cardiovascular events. These findings support the concept that a low ABI is an integrated marker of an excess risk of death and cardiovascular events, independent of conventional risk factors.