Premature atherosclerotic peripheral artery disease (PAD) of the lower extremities is characterized by disease diagnosis before the age of 50 years. The global prevalence of premature PAD has increased, and the disease is often underdiagnosed given heterogenous patient symptoms. Traditional cardiovascular risk factors like smoking, diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia as well as non-traditional risk factors like elevated lipoprotein(a), family history of PAD, hypercoagulability, and systemic inflammation are associated with premature PAD. Patients with premature PAD tend to have an aggressive vascular disease process, a high burden of cardiovascular risk factors, and other concomitant atherosclerotic vascular diseases like coronary artery disease. Prevention of cardiovascular events, improvement of symptoms and functional status, and prevention of adverse limb events are the main goals of patient management. In this review, we discuss the epidemiology, risk factors, clinical evaluation, and management of patients with premature PAD.
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