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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
Volume 61, Issue 17, Pages 1820-1829Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.01.060
Keywords
functional limitation; intermittent claudication; mortality; peripheral artery disease
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [K12-HL083790, R01-HL083064, R01-HL64739, R01-HL71223]
- National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health [RR-00048]
- National Institute on Aging
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Objectives This study determined whether greater 2-year declines in Walking Impairment Questionnaire (WIQ) stair climbing, distance, or speed scores were associated with higher all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality among men and women with lower extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD). Background Associations of decline in the WIQ with mortality among people with PAD are unknown. Methods Participants were 442 men and women with PAD identified from Chicago area medical centers. The WIQ was completed at baseline and at 2-year follow-up. Cox proportional hazard models were used to assess associations across categories of 2-year changes in WIQ stair climbing, WIQ distance, and WIQ speed scores with subsequent all-cause and CVD mortality, adjusting for age, sex, race, ankle-brachial index, body mass index, smoking, comorbidities, and other covariates. Results One hundred twenty-three participants (27.8%) died during a median follow-up of 4.7 years after the 2-year change in WIQ score measurements. Forty-five participants died from CVD. Adjusting for covariates, participants with WIQ score declines >= 20.0 points had higher all-cause mortality (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.93, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.01 to 3.68 for WIQ stair climbing; HR: 2.34, 95% CI: 1.15 to 4.75 for WIQ distance; and HR: 3.55, 95% CI: 1.57 to 8.04 for WIQ speed, respectively) compared with participants with >= 20.0 point improvement in each of the corresponding WIQ categories. Participants with >= 20.0 point declines in the WIQ distance score had higher CVD mortality (HR: 4.56, 95% CI: 1.30 to 16.01) compared with those with >= 20.0 point improvement in the WIQ distance score. Conclusions Patients with PAD who experienced >= 20.0 point declines in the WIQ stair climbing, distance, and speed scores had a higher rate of all-cause mortality compared with those with less declines in each WIQ score. (J Am Coll Cardiol 2013;61:1820-9) (C) 2013 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation
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