What are the problems with claudication?

So can you please tell us what the problems are with claudication? Claudication is a pain in the legs when you walk, relieve on, rest and we're talking about claudication caused by peripheral vascular disease. Now the peripheral vascular disease is caused by a disease called atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries. That not only affects the leg arteries but all the other arteries in the body. So if you're a claudican and have claudication we must modify your risk of cardiovascular disease in general by being on medications like aspirin, clopidogrel or statins. The problem with the claudication is not so much in terms of the legs, although claudication can be lifestyle limiting and affect your ability to work. The immediate problem is you are much higher risk of having a heart attack or stroke or kidney failure due to hardening of the arteries leading to these organs. So it's really important to get you the right medication to improve your chances of minimizing those sort of complications, which are to do with atherosclerosis or hardening the arteries throughout the body. In terms of the legs, a very small proportion of patients worsen in terms of the peripheral vascular disease, which will lead to what we call critical limb ischemia with ulcers that don't heal or gangrene, which may well result in losing the leg. So I think what I'm trying to say is that claudication is a systemic disease which needs to be treated as such, and the likelihood of claudication worsening to the point where you have a problem with the leg is very, very low indeed.