Important prognostic factors for the results of physiotherapeutic exercises in intermittent claudication
Krause, D.; Stang, A.; Zezschwitz, W.
Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift 119(40): 1289-1294
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0341-3098 PMID: 412058 Document Number: 110757
In 240 patients with peripheral circulatory disorders (Fontaine Stage II) who had participated in intensive physiotherapeutic interval training daily for 6 weeks between October 1974 and July 1976, it was established that the therapeutic results were not related to age or sex. The "risk" factors of smoking, diabetes mellitus, hypertriglyceridemia, hypercholesterolemia and hyperuricemia individually show no connection with the results. Only overweight, hypertension and coronary heart disease appear to have an unfavorable influence. It is distinctly recognizable that the more risk factors there are combined in a patient with intermittent claudication, the less chance he has of success in physiotherapeutic vessel training.