Sartipy F, et al. - Researchers here aimed at assessing long-term mortality rates and the underlying cause of death for subjects with different peripheral arterial disease (PAD) stages in a population based setting. Findings revealed that high risk of cardiovascular (CV) death remained among PAD subjects, including the asymptomatic PAD subjects. In symptomatic PAD patients, the mortality risks were more than doubled compared with reference subjects and increase by severity of PAD stage.