Abstract

Objectives: To determine the frequency of peripheral vascular disease in diabetic patients.

Study design: Descriptive cross sectional.

Methodology: This study was conducted in department of medicine, Mardan Medical Complex, in which 72 type 2 diabetic patients were included through non probability random sampling technique. A questionnaire was distributed among the participants and ankle-brachial index was measured, and values of ankle brachial index were interpreted as Non compressible Ankle-brachial index more than 1.30, Normal ankle-brachial index 0.91-1.30, Mild to moderate PAD ankle-brachial index 0.41-0.90, Severe PAD ankle-brachial index 0.00-0.40.

Results: In this study 72 diabetic patients were included with sex ratio of male 45 percent and female 54 percent, mean age of the participant was 55.4 with a standard deviation of 10.57. Among the 72 patients 34.2% of the patients were having mild to moderate PVD at right side and 23.6 % of the patients were having mild to moderate PVD at left side.

Conclusion: Using ankle-brachial index we found that the frequency of PAD in diabetic patients are 57.8 % (34.2% of the right side and 23.5% on the left side). This study demonstrated the importance of ankle brachial index in the diagnosis of PAD as compared to other findings like absent pedal pulses and intermittent claudication.

Keywords: Peripheral Vascular Diseases, Ankle brachial index.