International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences | November 2017 | Vol 5 | Issue 11 Page 4881 International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences Tyagi V et al. Int J Res Med Sci. 2017 Nov;5(11):4881-4885 www.msjonline.org pISSN 2320-6071 | eISSN 2320-6012 Original Research Article Prevalence of peripheral artery disease in diabetes mellitus: research article Vinod Tyagi, Abhishek Gupta*, Naman Bansal, S. K. Virmani INTRODUCTION Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is defined as atherosclerotic occlusive disease of lower ex-tremities. PAD is associated with increased risk of lower extremity amputation and is also a marker for atherothrombosis in cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and renovascular beds. Pa-tients with PAD therefore have an increased risk of MI, stroke and death. 1 Additionally, PAD causes significant long-term disability in diabetic patients. PAD can be clinically identified by intermittent claudication and/or absence of pe-ripheral pulsations in the lower extremities. 2 With the use of doppler technology and ankle brachial pressure index measurement, peripheral artery disease can be identified non invasively before clinical manifestations. Peripheral vascular disease is a major macrovascular complication of diabetes melli-tus. Because of the unique involvement of distal pattern of vessels and invariable association with neuropathy, peripheral arterial disease in diabetics presents late, having already devel-oped limb threating ischaemia. 3 In the present study, 100 patients with diabetes mellitus were enrolled to find out prevalence of peripheral vascular disease using ankle brachial pressure index and study the associated risk factors. METHODS This prospective observational study was carried out at the Department of Medicine at Subharti Medical College, Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut, India. Patients of all age group presented with Diabetes Mellitus in the department of medicine and admitted to the hospital were studied during the study period from June 2015 to May 2017. Department of Medicine, Subharti Medical College, Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India Received: 29 August 2017 Accepted: 29 September 2017 *Correspondence: Dr. Abhishek Gupta, E-mail: vasugupta792000@yahoo.com Copyright: © the author(s), publisher and licensee Medip Academy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT Background: Peripheral artery disease is a major macrovascular complication of diabetes mellitus. Patients with diabetes mellitus have an increased prevalence of PAD. The ankle brachial pressure index is an easy, non invasive and often under utilised tool for diagnosis of PAD. Methods: In the present study, 100 patients from Western Uttar Pradesh with diabetes mellitus were enrolled to find out prevalence of peripheral vascular disease using ankle brachial pressure index and study the associated risk factors. Results: 59 percent of the subjects were female and 41 percent were male. Ankle-brachial index (ABI) examination of patients indicated Abnormal (ABI= <0.9), in 40 cases. Conclusions: it can be concluded that peripheral vascular disease in Diabetes Mellitus is more commonly associated than is generally believed. Keywords: Ankle brachial pressure index (ABPI), Diabetes, PVD DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20174938