Secondary Pharmacotherapeutic Prevention among German Primary Care Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease

Table 1

Study patient characteristics.

	PAD patients	CVD patients	𝑃-value
Number	479	958	n.s.
Age
mean (SD)	72.6 (12.0)	72.9 (11.2)	n.s.
Gender
males (%)	56.4	56.4	n.s.
females (%)	43.6	43.6	n.s.
Number “chronic conditions”
mean (SD)	4.1 (3.7)	4.2 (3.6)	n.s.
Number encounters (per mille)	38.8 (28.3)	37.2 (29.0)	n.s.
Practice profile‡	100%

‡corresponding PAD patients and CAD patients were matched within the same practice setting without exception.