KevinMD January 1, 2026
With the holiday season upon us, joy, warmth, and delicious food fill our homes. While we enjoy those festival meals, our own “life-highway” vessels quietly shoulder the burden of all the fats and sugars we consume. Alongside the happiness of the season comes an overlooked strain on our arteries. What strikes me even more, as a vascular specialist, is a recent study from the University Hospital at Downstate in Brooklyn, New York. Despite rapid innovation in medical devices and vascular treatments, the rate of amputation is still rising by nearly 9 percent per year since 2010, and is increasingly affecting younger patients. This cohort with amputation results from peripheral artery disease (PAD), a condition that develops through mechanisms similar to...
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