Exercise Training Study of Patients With Claudicatio Intermittens

Ki vehet részt

• Pain in the calves after 300 m, or less measured on a treadmill
• Stable symptoms last 6 months or more
• The pain must be gone within 5 minutes after the patients stop walking
• Ankle-Brachial index at 0.7 or lower at rest
• Using statins and antiplatelet drugs since at least 3 months
• age> 18 years
• Signed consent

Ki nem vehet részt

• Use of statins and antiplatelet drugs less than 3 months
• General conditions that impairs the ability to take part in a training study including Obesity, KOLS, heart disease, arthrosis, inflammatory joint diseases
• Diabetes measured with HbA1c being over 48 mmol/mol (6%)
• Age less than 18 years
• pain in the hips or elsewhere outside the calves while walking
• Remaining pain more than 5 minutes after stopped walking
• Impossible to compress the arteries while measruing ABI or ABI lower than 0.4
• symptoms less than 6 months
• Revascularisation the last 6 months
• Pain in the calves after longer than 300 m measured on a treadmill
• Reduced mobility in the ankles
• Reduced physical ability to perform a test on a treadmill
• No Signed consent