- We recommend multidisciplinary comprehensive smoking cessation interventions for patients with asymptomatic PAD who use tobacco (repeatedly until tobacco use has stopped) (Grade 1, Level A).
- We recommend providing education about the signs and symptoms of PAD progression to asymptomatic patients with PAD (Grade 1, Level Ungraded).
- We recommend against invasive treatments for PAD in the absence of symptoms, regardless of hemodynamic measures or imaging findings demonstrating PAD (Grade 1, Level B).
PAD, peripheral arterial disease.