Risk factors for claudication

So can you please tell me who gets claudication? Of course, I think what you're really asking is what are the risk factors for developing intermittent claudication from peripheral vascular disease and there's a sort of a list of usual suspects, conditions that can give you peripheral vascular disease and atherosclerosis. Those include things like smoking, that's the big one, if you've got high blood pressure, if you've got high cholesterol, if you've got diabetes and if you've got kidney disease. Also, if you have a family history of cardiovascular disease, what I mean by that is claudication, critical limb ischemia of the legs or heart disease or strokes and also there are other factors like an elevated level of homocysteine as well as cholesterol and those are the main factors.