Risk of Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease and Presence of Symptoms of Intermittent Claudication among Diabetic Patients: Cross Sectional Study

Diabetes mellitus, a chronic metabolic non-communicable disease (NCD), has attained epidemic proportions worldwide 1 . Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is one of the diabetic macro vascular complications 2 . It is a marker of generalized systemic atherosclerosis and is closely associated with symptomatic coronary and cerebrovascular disease. Among diabetic populations, screening and diagnosis of PAD are frequently suboptimal2