Prevalence and Prognostic Significance of Asymptomatic Peripheral Arterial Disease in 68-year-old Men with Diabetes. Results from the Population Study 'Men Born in 1914' from Malmö, Sweden

A fasting blood glucose value above 6.1 mmol/l even in the absence of symptoms indicating diabetes was associated by an increased prevalence of asymptomatic PAD. The cardiovascular risk in diabetes varied widely between men with and without abnormal ankle-brachial pressure index.