Cigarette Smoking and Subclinical Peripheral Arterial Disease in Blacks of the Jackson Heart Study

摘要

BackgroundPrevalence of peripheral artery disease (PAD) is significantly higher among blacks as compared with non‐Hispanic whites, but the role of cigarette smoking in PAD is understudied in blacks. We aimed to evaluate the relationship between cigarette smoking and PAD in blacks in the (JHS) Jackson Heart Study.