Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO

Amount

$87,382.00

Award Date

9/01/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is an understudied debilitating chronic illness that is most prevalent in the elderly. Patients with PAD experience substantial walking impairment, due to symptoms of limb ischemia (claudication) that significantly dimini