Abstract
Although Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) presents a similar lethality to Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS), PAD still is largely underdiagnosed, and, consequently, undertreated. This fact occurs due to the lack of studies that show the disease its mortality rate and its influence on other cardiovascular diseases, such as Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) and Myocardial Infarction (MI). It will…