{"id":1238,"date":"2017-12-15T06:41:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T06:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2023-04-20T06:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T06:00:34","slug":"how-do-you-identify-peripheral-artery-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/vascular-medicine\/how-do-you-identify-peripheral-artery-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you identify Peripheral Artery Disease?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"caps\"><strong>How do you identify Peripheral Artery Disease?<br \/><\/strong>\u2022 Severe pain in calf when walking<br \/>\u2022 Cramping in legs<br \/>\u2022 Coldness in left foot<br \/>\u2022 Sores that won\u2019t heal<br \/>\u2022 Weak pulse in leg<br \/>\u2022 Slower growth of toenails<br \/>\u2022 Shiny skin on legs<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1240 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1241 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"224\" \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1242 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Who is at risk for Periperal Artery Disease?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c4ChGNgDaJg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\u2022 Do you smoke?<br \/>\u2022 Do you have diabetes?<br \/>\u2022 Are you overweight (BMI over 30)?<br \/>\u2022 Do you have high blood pressure?<br \/>\u2022 Suffer from high cholesterol?<br \/>\u2022 Over 50 years of age?<br \/>\u2022 Have a family history of PAD?<br \/>If you answered yes to any of the above, you could be at risk for PAD.<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Treatment for Peripheral Artery Disease<br \/><\/strong><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZvSSctnVopk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\u2022 Lifestyle changes<br \/>\u2022 Medication to manage hypertension, diabetes and cholesterol<br \/>\u2022 Medication to prevent blood clots<br \/>\u2022 Angioplasty<br \/>\u2022 Bypass Surgery<br \/>\u2022 Thrombolytic therapy<\/p>\r\n<p>For more information visit &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/Centers-of-Excellence-and-Specialties\/Vascular-Surgery\">Vascular Surgery<\/a><br \/><strong>Call <a href=\"tel:+9140006000\">+9140006000<\/a> for an appointment with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/Doctors\/Chennais\/Vascular-Surgery\/Dr.-Sekar-Natarajan\">Prof. Dr. N. Sekar<\/a>, Chief Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon, Kauvery Hospital, Chennai.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Kauvery Hospital is globally known for its multidisciplinary services at all its Centers of Excellence, and for its comprehensive, Avant-Grade technology, especially in diagnostics and remedial care in heart diseases, transplantation, vascular and neurosciences medicine. Located in the heart of Trichy (Tennur, Royal Road and Alexandria Road (Cantonment), Chennai, Hosur, Salem, Tirunelveli and Bengaluru, the hospital also renders adult and pediatric trauma care.<\/p>\r\n<p>Chennai \u2013 044 4000 6000 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Cantonment \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Heartcity \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Tennur \u2013 0431 4022555 \u2022 Maa Kauvery Trichy \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Kauvery Cancer Institute, Trichy \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Hosur \u2013 04344 272727 \u2022 Salem \u2013 0427 2677777 \u2022 Tirunelveli &#8211; 0462 4006000 \u2022 Bengaluru &#8211; 080 6801 6801<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you identify Peripheral Artery Disease?\u2022 Severe pain in calf when walking\u2022 Cramping in legs\u2022 Coldness in left foot\u2022 Sores that won\u2019t heal\u2022 Weak pulse in leg\u2022 Slower growth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vascular-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8862,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/8862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}