Exercise, Stents May Be Better Than Usual Care For Claudication.

MedPage Today  (11/20, Kaiser) reported, "Compared with usual care for moderate to severe claudication, walking improved most with supervised exercise, but stenting won more quality-of-life points, researchers from the CLEVER trial found." Investigators reported that "the change from baseline in the peak walking time (the primary endpoint) at six months in the supervised exercise group was 4.6 minutes (P<0.001) and 2.5 minutes for those in the stenting group (P=0.02), compared with medical therapy alone." The research  , published online in Circulation and presented at the American Heart Association meeting, indicated that "the difference in claudication onset time (a secondary endpoint) compared with usual care was 2.2 minutes for supervised exercise (P<0.003) and 2.9 minutes for stenting (P=0.006)."