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Can you please tell me how peripheral artery disease and coronary artery disease differ?
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Atherosclerosis: Affects both areas coronary is heart blood vessels peripheral is essentially all other blood vessels except intracranial.
Answered 4/7/2013
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Same: Same arteriopathy different location.
Answered 4/14/2013
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