PVD Risk Factors |

Diabetes, advanced age, high blood pressure and high cholesterol are risk factors of peripheral vascular diseases.

Dr. Antonio Mesa, Neurologist with Baptist Hospital Miami, explains which ones we can control and how they affect the body.

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