Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is prevalent in individuals with heart failure (HF). We therefore performed a meta-analysis to assess the prognostic impact of PAD in HF patients.A systematic search of PubMed and The Cochrane Library was conducted to identify publications from inception to May 2015. We also manually assessed the reference lists of relevant literature for more eligible citations. Only studies reporting the risk of PAD for prognostic endpoints in HF were included in our meta-analysis.The search strategy yielded eight studies comprising a total of 20,968 subjects, of whom 19.4
作者：Baozhu, Wei；Cheng, Qian；Qi, Fang；Yanggan, Wang
来源：Heart, lung & circulation 2016 年 25卷 12期
