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BACKGROUND: There has been increasing recognition of the detrimental effect of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) on the health of Americans, and yet there is no common national program of public PAD education designed to diminish this effect. FORMAT: To heighten awareness of this problem, a 2-day PAD Public Education Strategy Meeting was recently attended by representatives of 17 professional societies and public health associations whose missions support the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of vascular diseases...

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether aspirin and antioxidant therapy, combined or alone, are more effective than placebo in reducing the development of cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes mellitus and asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease. DESIGN: Multicentre, randomised, double blind, 2x2 factorial, placebo controlled trial. SETTING: 16 hospital centres in Scotland, supported by 188 primary care groups. PARTICIPANTS: 1276 adults aged 40 or more with type 1 or type 2 diabetes and an ankle brachial pressure index of 0...