Diabetes research and clinical practice
Medial arterial calcification of the foot arteries is associated with incident cardiovascular events or all-cause mortality in patients with diabetes-related foot ulceration.
Nick S R Lan, Jonathan Hiew, Pamela Chen, Mahalia McEvoy, Priyal Shah, Ivana Ferreira, J Carsten Ritter, Laurens Manning, Bu B Yeap, P Gerry Fegan, Girish Dwivedi, Emma J Hamilton
Published: 202610.1016/j.diabres.2026.113108
Abstract
AIMS: Pedal medial arterial calcification (pMAC) is a marker of vascular pathology incidentally detected on foot x-ray. We assessed the association between pMAC and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) and mortality in patients with diabetes-re…
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