Where next?
Below are some links to other organisations and websites which have more information about peripheral arterial disease and the illnesses associated with it.
You will also find details of the societies who work alongside the Circulation Foundation in a bid to stamp out vascular disease.
The NHS CHOICES website is the biggest health website in the country, providing both patients and healthcare professionals with a wide range of high quality health information. NHS Choices is a certified member of the Information Standard as a producer of reliable health and social care information.
NHS Choices: atherosclerosis
NHS Choices: varicose veins
NHS Choices: high cholesterol
NHS Choices: chilblains
NHS Choices: varicose eczema

The Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland is a registered charity founded to relieve sickness and to preserve, promote and protect the health of the public by advancing excellence and innovation in vascular health, through education, audit and research.
Society of Vascular Nurses is a society run by nurses for nurses. Their main aim is to provide a national network for nurses working in vascular care.
The Society for Vascular Technology (SVT) was formed in 1992 to advance non-invasive vascular diagnostic services by promoting training and research in Vascular Technology and to disseminate the results of such research for the benefit of the public.
Target PAD is a group of lay persons and professionals who are dedicated to abolishing health inequality for patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Their mission is to bring this about by improving education and awareness of patients, health professionals and policy makers, resulting in PAD being given an appropriate proportion of health service resources and funding in both secondary and primary care.
Counselling Directory is a counselling support network across the UK, enabling those in distress to find a counsellor appropriate for their needs located nearby. This is a free, confidential service that provides information to those in distress. Every counsellor on the site is registered with a professional body with recognised codes of ethics and practice or has certified qualifications.