Acknowledgments
We wish to thank the subjects who enrolled in the
study, John Steiner, MD, who reviewed the manuscript,
and Laura Ruff for performing the carnitine
assays. Sandra Russell and Marc Leitner assisted
with the testing and training activities of the study.
Robert Panzer, MD, designed the questions used for
the community-based PAD activity assessment, and
Rose Heineman and Kenneth Schneider prepared
the text and figures in final form.