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Setting. 18 gen eral practice centers in The Netherlands. Design. Cross-sectional comparison of signs, symptoms, and data from the medical record with the independently assessed ankle- brachial systolic pressure index (ABPI; cutoff point &lt; 0.90); analysis: bivariate, multiple logistic regression (MLR). Population. 2,455 individuals with leg complaints, aged 40.7-78.4 years; ABPI &lt; 0.90 present in 9.2% of legs (11.7% of individuals). Outcome measures. Clinical variables: sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values (PV+, PV-), diagnostic odds ratio (OR); models: likelihood ratio test, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). Results. Bivariate analysis: highest sensitivity: age more than 60 years (77.3%); highest specificity: wounds or sores on toes and foot (99.7%); highest PV+: typical intermittent claudication (IC) (45.0%) (abnormal foot pulses 41.3%); highest PV-: strong pulses of both foot arteries (97.7%). MLR: the best-performing model (AUC 0.89) consisted of ten clinical varia bles : gender (OR 1.5), age more than 60 (OR 2.2); IC (OR 3.5); palpation of the skin temperature of the feet (OR 2.5), palpation of both foot pulses [OR 16.4 (abnormal) and 7.0 (doubtful)], auscultation of the femoral artery (OR 3.5); previous diagnosis of IHD (OR 1.7) or diabetes (OR 1.6), history of smoking (OR 2.1), and elevated blood pressure (OR 1.5). The range of predicted probabilities was 0.4-98%. The Hosmer- Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test indicated good overall fit (p = 0.52). Conclusions. Pal pation of both foot pulses is the key procedure for the clinical diagnosis of PAOD. Traditional clinical evaluation enables the general practitioner to exclude the diagnosis of PAOD in many individuals with a high degree of certainty, to establish the diagnosis in a small group of patients, and to define a limited group of patients where supple mentary noninvasive testing is appropriate. The MLR model can be used as a diag nostic checklist and as a reference for the physician's clinical hypothesis. Key words: peripheral arterial disease, intermittent claudication, diagnosis, general practice, mul tiple logistic regression. 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