
“I am honoured to have our work recognised by the American Heart Association,” she said. “Peripheral artery disease (PAD) has a huge social and economic burden and is an important contributor to the global health burden.
“Our work has shown that sex differences in PAD are apparent, and our discovery may explain why women with PAD have worse clinical outcomes to treatment than men.”
PAD occurs because of blocked arteries in limbs, and often results in amputation. Alarmingly, a limb is amputated every two hours in Australia. This rate is predicated to increase because of the diabetes epidemic.
Assoc Prof Kavurma and her co-authors were acknowledged during the conference that took place on May 15 to 18 in Chicago, USA.