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Is there a fetal origin of peripheral vascular disease?
1 Centre for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
2 Department of Vascular Surgery, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK
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Omar Khan
Centre for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 5YA, UK; omarkhan@iname.com
Keywords: peripheral vascular disease
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Peripheral vascular disease (PVD) is an atherosclerotic disease of the distal arterial system typically affecting the lower limbs. This syndrome encompasses a wide range of patients from those with asymptomatic arterial narrowing to those with intermittent claudication, and at the extreme end of the spectrum, patients with critical limb ischaemia and gangrene. The common pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the development of PVD and other atherosclerotic diseases are reflected in the fact that patients often have concomitant coronary artery and cerebrovascular disease. Over the last 20 years, a number of studies have established the importance of birth weight as a determinant of both coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular mortality.1,2 By contrast there has been very little work investigating the possible influence of the prenatal environment on the later development of peripheral vascular disease. In this review, we will summarise the epidemiological work conducted on peripheral vascular disease. In addition, we will appraise
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