Exercise Training Study of Patients With Claudicatio Intermittens

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Pain in the calves after 300 m, or less measured on a treadmill

2. Stable symptoms last 6 months or more

3. The pain must be gone within 5 minutes after the patients stop walking

4. Ankle-Brachial index at 0.7 or lower at rest

5. Using statins and antiplatelet drugs since at least 3 months

6. age> 18 years

7. Signed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

1. pain in the hips or elsewhere outside the calves while walking

2. Remaining pain more than 5 minutes after stopped walking.

3. Impossible to compress the arteries while measruing ABI or ABI lower than 0.4

4. Use of statins and antiplatelet drugs less than 3 months

5. symptoms less than 6 months

6. Diabetes measured with HbA1c being over 48 mmol/mol (6%)

7. Revascularisation the last 6 months

8. Pain in the calves after longer than 300 m measured on a treadmill

9. Reduced mobility in the ankles

10. Reduced physical ability to perform a test on a treadmill.

11. Age less than 18 years

12. General conditions that impairs the ability to take part in a training studyincluding Obesity, KOLS, heart disease, arthrosis, inflammatory joint diseases .

13. No Signed consent