Arteriosclerosis Symptoms

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• QWhat are the risk factors and symptoms of mesenteric artery disease?

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  A NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital answered

  Risk factors for mesenteric artery disease include smoking - the number one risk factor for all cardiovascular diseases - a family history of atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, advanced age, obesity, and a sedentary lifestyle.

  With mesenteric artery disease, patients can experience weight loss and severe abdominal pain when they eat.

• QWhat are the symptoms of lower extremity arterial disease?

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  The symptoms of lower extremity arterial disease include:

  • Claudication, cramping pains while walking, usually in the calf muscles but sometimes in the thighs. Claudication is the most common symptom of this condition.
  • Pain in the feet and, as the disease progresses, in the toes while at rest.
  • Coolness, numbness, or weakness of the legs and feet.
  • Poor healing of wounds in the legs and feet.
  • Ulcers of the feet and legs, which develop when the blood supply to tissue is cut off, and which can become gangrenous if untreated.
  • Black discoloration of the toes or skin around the occluded artery.