Table 2.

Adjusted Associations of Leg Symptom Categories With Peripheral Nerve Function in Persons With PAD^*

	Always Asymptomatic (n=67)	Sometimes Asymptomatic (n=29)	Pain on Exertion and Rest (n=95)	Pain/Carry on (n=42)	IC (n=194)
Peroneal NCV m/s	33.07†	41.17	37.08	41.15	40.32
Peroneal nerve amplitude, mV	1.92†	3.44	2.68	2.78	3.10
Peroneal latency, ms	5.00	4.97	5.02	4.84	4.93
Sural NCV, m/s	40.67	40.13	41.80	42.18	43.08
Sural amplitude, mV	3.29‡	4.28	4.59	6.76	5.52
Sural latency, ms	5.49§	3.56	3.66	3.18	3.33
Ulnar motor NCV, m/s	49.84	50.35	50.28	51.77	50.62
Ulnar motor nerve amplitude, mV	8.42	8.71	8.86	9.14	8.92
Ulnar motor nerve latency, ms	2.89	2.82	2.82	2.74	2.80

Analyses include participants with 0 values for NCV. When analyses were repeated excluding participants with 0 values for NCV differences in peroneal NCV between participants with IC and those who were always asymptomatic were no longer statistically significant.

^*Analyses adjust for age, sex, race, BMI, ABI, comorbidities, recruitment cohort, cigarette smoking, height, lower extremity revascularization, and alcohol use.

^†P= 0.0002

^‡P= 0.0051

^§P= 0.0056 for pairwise comparisons of always asymptomatic PAD participants vs IC.