The ankle-brachial index (ABI) is a noninvasive, low-cost, and useful test for detecting asymptomatic peripheral artery disease (PAD). An ABI 0.9 has a sensitivity of 95% and a specificity of 99% in identifying PAD when compared with arteriography (1). A low ABI predicts risk of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, PAD events, and stroke (2,3). Although an elevated prevalence of a low A...

Objective: To compare the Neurocognitive Driving Test (NDT) with an established driving assessment method. Study Design: A prospective matched-control study. Participants: Fifteen adult volunteers with acquired brain injury (ABI), aged 21–59 years, referred for a driving evaluation and 15 healthy control (HC) participants. Methods: Individuals with ABI were administered the NDT and a traditiona...

Anoxic brain injury (ABI) is common and can occur in a wide variety of disorders. This neural injury is associated with significant and persistent cognitive impairments and poor functional outcomes, related in part to the severity of anoxia. Following ABI neuroimaging has been used diagnostically, but additional research needs to be done to predict rehabilitation outcomes. Patients with ABI hav...

INTRODUCTION The diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) can be made by measuring the ankle-brachial index (ABI). Traditionally ABI values > 1.00-1.40 have been considered normal and ABI ≤ 0.90 defines PAD. Recent studies, however, have shown that individuals with ABI values between 0.90-1.00 are also at risk of cardiovascular events. We studied this cardiovascular risk population subgro...

AIMS AGATHA (a Global Atherothrombosis Assessment) was designed to assess the extent of atherothrombosis and the use of the ankle-brachial index (ABI) in vascular patients. The principal hypotheses were that (1) in diseased patients, a low ABI was related to the number and site of vascular beds affected and (2) in at-risk patients without disease, a low ABI was related to the number of risk fac...

An interarm systolic blood pressure (SBP) difference of 10 mmHg or more have been associated with peripheral artery disease and adverse cardiovascular outcomes. We investigated whether an association exists between this difference and ankle-brachial index (ABI), brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV), and echocardiographic parameters. A total of 1120 patients were included in the study. The...

The objectives of the present study are (1) to compare the cardioankle vascular index (CAVI), ankle-brachial index (ABI), and carotid artery intima-media thickness (CA-IMT) between HD patients with and without type 2 diabetes (T2D) or prevalence of cardiovascular (CV) disease and (2) also to evaluate the relationship of these indices with CA-IMT in these patients according to ABI levels. This s...

Elevated risk of fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular events is associated with high prevalence of peripheral arterial disease, with assessment through the ankle-brachial index (ABI). This study aimed to demonstrate that the ABI and the Edinburgh Claudication Questionnaire are tools to be used by nurses in prevention and/or treatment of CVD (cardiovascular disease). A cross-sectional study was ca...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of contact versus education interventions for adolescents in reducing stigmatizing attitudes toward people with acquired brain injury (ABI), and whether visibility of ABI affects the intervention outcome. 408 students (age range = 14-17 years) from 13 schools in the Mid-West of Ireland were randomly allocated to one of the three inter...

Aim: To assess the relationship of Ankle brachial index with age, BMI, smoking and lipid profile. Method: Cross-sectional observational study conducted on outpatients 150 risk subjects. Subjects were selected on the basis of age >45 yrs for males and 50 years for females along with conventional cardiovascular risk factors including hypertension, obesity, smoking and diabetes. The subjects were ...