Clinicians are increasingly presented with the tasks of addressing not only a burgeoning population of type 2 diabetics, but an equally voluminous group of prediabetics.
When complaints of dizziness in elderly patients were evaluated in primary care offices, the most common cause was cardiovascular disease, combined with contributions from adverse drug reactions. This contradicts many previous studies done in tertiary care settings where vertigo or vestibular disease was found to be the most common cause.
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a pathological condition characterized by atherosclerotic occlusion of arterial blood supply to the lower or upper extremities.