Ahmet Çağrı Aykan1. 1. Department of Cardiology, Ahi Evren Chest Cardiovascular Surgery Education and Research Hospital; Trabzon-Turkey. ahmetaykan@yahoo.com.
To the Editor,We thank the authors for the interest they have shown in our article entitled “Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) may be a marker of peripheral artery disease complexity” published online in Anatol J Cardiol 2015 (1).NLR is associated with both obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) and CAD ectasia (2, 3). We previously showed that CAD is common in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) and the severity and complexity of CAD was associated with the severity and complexity of PAD (4, 5). Evaluation of SYNTAX score together with NLR may give additional information for calculating a probability score. However, this study is not designed that way. The objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between PAD severity and complexity, as evaluated by TransAtlantic Inter-Society Consensus-II (TASC-II) classification, and NLR. Therefore, we evaluated if gender was associated with CAD severity. Body mass index, presence of metabolic syndrome, and waist-to-hip ratio were important markers for CAD (6). Our study was a retrospective cross-sectional study.
Authors: Ahmet Çağrı Aykan; Engin Hatem; Can Yücel Karabay; İlker Gül; Tayyar Gökdeniz; Ezgi Kalaycıoğlu; Turhan Turan; Faruk Kara; Ahmet Oğuz Arslan; İhsan Dursun; Mustafa Çetin; Ahmet Güler Journal: Vascular Date: 2014-09-10 Impact factor: 1.285