Peripheral artery disease affects the function of the legs of claudicating patients in a diffuse manner irrespective of the segment of the arterial tree primarily involved

• Todd J. Leutzinger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomechanics and Center for Research in Human Movement Variability, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Panagiotis Koutakis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Baylor University, Wako, Texas, United States of America

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• Matthew A. Fuglestad,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Hafizur Rahman,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomechanics and Center for Research in Human Movement Variability, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Surgery and Research Service, Nebraska and Western Iowa Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Holly Despiegelaere,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery and Research Service, Nebraska and Western Iowa Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Mahdi Hassan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomechanics and Center for Research in Human Movement Variability, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Surgery and Research Service, Nebraska and Western Iowa Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Molly Schieber,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Jason M. Johanning,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Surgery and Research Service, Nebraska and Western Iowa Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Nick Stergiou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomechanics and Center for Research in Human Movement Variability, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Environmental Agricultural and Occupational Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• G. Matthew Longo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• George P. Casale,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Sara A. Myers ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: samyers@unomaha.edu (SAM); ipipinos@unmc.edu (IIP)

  Affiliations Department of Biomechanics and Center for Research in Human Movement Variability, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Surgery and Research Service, Nebraska and Western Iowa Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2934-2624

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• Iraklis I. Pipinos

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: samyers@unomaha.edu (SAM); ipipinos@unmc.edu (IIP)

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Surgery and Research Service, Nebraska and Western Iowa Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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