[Walking training as basic therapy of stage II peripheral arterial occlusive disease--success despite advanced age...

64 patients (60 to 83 years old) with intermittent claudication underwent a six months lasting supervised exercise walk training. Most of them suffered from concomitant disease impairing walking performance or just weakness by age. Walking distance was measured in the beginning and after 3 and 6 months. We found an improvement in walking distance in all groups (60-64 years: 273%; 75-83 years: 196.6%) So we recommend to apply walk training to a much more patients even with concomitant disease are of old age.