[Does hypertension improve the prognosis in peripheral arterial disease?]

After an introduction about the importance or not of arterial hypertension as a risk factor arteriosclerosis of the lower limbs, wer report on a group of 193 patients affected by peripheral arteriopathy, divided for different class of systemic arterial pressure. We verified that the clinical development of the disease is better in the hypertensive subjects and in particular in the moderately hypertensive subjects (between 150 and 170 mmHg). It coincides with the clinical impression by which this research is born.