Peripheral Vascular Disease as a Predictor of Survival After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Comparison With a Matched General Population

Peripheral vascular disease is an independent risk factor only for late mortality but not for early mortality. Compared with age-matched and sex-matched cohorts from the general Dutch population, the ten-year survival of patients with peripheral vascular disease was worse; whereas the survival of patients with no peripheral vascular disease was better.