Analysis of the gender structure of patients has established
that the larger number of patients in both groups were males,
66% in control group and 62% in the test group. Average age
of patients in the control group was 48.60±3.82 while the age
of patients in the test group was 47.56±3.62. Analysis of the
patients’ age in the examined groups in comparison with the
gender structure established that there is no statistically significant
difference in average age of the patients in relation
to the gender within the control and test group. At the beginning
of research, after the ultrasound measuring of PSV
pedal arteries (table 1), the findings confirmed that patients
of both the test and the control group had pathological values
which did not statistically deviate among examined groups
(p=0.379). Average value of the PSV in patients of the control
group was 23.7±8,47 cm/s, and in patients of the test group it
was 22.4±5.76 cm/s. Analysis of the average PSV values at the
end of research (table 1) has shown statistically significant difference
in relation to the examined groups (p