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Walking Program Slows Decline in Peripheral Artery Disease -

"CHICAGO, Jan. 3 - Ninety minutes of walking a week, made up of three or more therapeutic walks, may slow the progress of lower extremity peripheral arterial disease, according to researchers here.

Compared with PAD patients who walked fewer than three times a week, the regular walkers were able to walk longer and faster on annual six-minute walking tests, Mary McGrae McDermott, M.D., of Northwestern and colleagues reported in the Jan. 3 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine."

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