Passport to Wellness: Reduce Risk Factors for Vascular Disease

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Are your toes and feet always cold and numb? When you take a walk, do you experience pain in your thighs and calves? Do muscle cramps plague you at night or when you are resting?

Answering yes to any of these questions may mean that you have a peripheral vascular disease, an umbrella term for a group of diseases affecting arteries outside the heart. These diseases commonly cause poor circulation to toes, feet and legs and, left untreated, may lead to gangrene and amputation.

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Passport to Wellness: Reduce Risk Factors for Vascular Disease

Probably the most well known disease of the group is arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. Deposits on the arterial walls build up and inhibit normal blood flow through the vessel. The artery become...

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