Lifetime Risk of Lower‐Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease Defined by Ankle‐Brachial Index in the United States

Background There are no available lifetime risk estimates of lower‐extremity peripheral artery disease ( PAD ). Methods and Results Using data from 6 US community‐based cohorts and the vital statistics, we estimated the prevalence and incidence of PAD , defined as an ankle‐brachial index < 0.90, at each year of age from birth to 80 years for white, black, and Hispanic men and women. Then, we used Markov Monte Carlo simulations in a simulated...