While peripheral artery disease (PAD) can make walking or any other type of exercise painful, exercise is actually one of the most beneficial things that you can do to reduce the pain caused by PAD.
Dr. Berger and his colleagues found that women have a significantly higher prevalence of peripheralartery disease, while men have a higher prevalence of carotid artery stenosis and a dramatically higher prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysms.