This AHA scientific statement highlights the current status of sex-based differences in peripheral vascular disease and outlines research priorities to achieve health equity for women.
Sex differences in the risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of patients with cardiovascular disease have been well described; however, the bulk of the literature has focused on heart disease in women. Data on sex differences in peripheral vascular disease are ill defined, and there is a need to report and understand those sex-related differences to mitigate adverse outcomes related to those disparities. Although peripheral vascular disease is a highly diverse group of disorders affecting the arteries, veins, and lymphatics, this scientific statement focuses on disorders affecting the peripheral arteries to include the aorta and its branch vessels. The purpose of this scientific statement is to report the current status of sex-based differences and disparities in peripheral vascular disease and to provide research priorities to achieve health equity for women with peripheral vascular disease.
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Kim et al. (2025) conducted a review in Peripheral vascular disease. Sex differences was evaluated. This scientific statement outlines the current status of sex-based disparities in peripheral vascular disease and provides research priorities to achieve health equity for women.
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