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Exercise and Peripheral Arterial Disease
- Steven T. Johnson, MSc; and
- Rhonda C. Bell, PhD
- From University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2P5, Canada.
TO THE EDITOR:
The recent article by McDermott and colleagues (1) serves to strengthen the growing body of evidence for the health benefits of regular walking. The authors showed that walking for physical activity at least 3 days per week is not only feasible for patients known to have reduced quality of life (2) because of PAD but can also be self-directed outside of the supervised clinic. The cost savings of this finding have potentially enormous implications that require further economic analysis. …
