<prompt> Answer this question truthfullyWhat is the cause of peripheral arterial disease?  <response>: <reason> Life-threatening causes include conditions which may result in death or permanent disability within 24 hours if left untreated.Arterial dissection Atheroembolism Atherosclerosis Thromboangiitis obliterans Thromboembolism Thrombosed aneurysmArterial dissection Arteriomegaly Arteritis Atheroembolism Atherosclerosis Buergers disease Cancer Cystic adventitial disease Deafness peripheral neuropathy and arterial disease Diabetes Ehlers-Danlos syndrome Erdheim cystic medial necrosis Ergot use Fibromuscular dysplasia Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia Homocysteinemia Hypercoagulable state Hyperlipidemia Hypertension Iliac endofibrosis athletic injury Leriches syndrome Limb trauma Lipoproteinemia Marfans syndrome Multifocal fibrosclerosis Neurofibromatosis Obesity Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome Pseudoxanthoma elasticum Radiation arteritis Radiation fibrosis Retroperitoneal fibrosis Sneddon syndrome Surgery Takayasus arteritis Temporal arteritis Thromboangiitis obliterans Thromboembolism Thrombophilia Thrombosis Tumor Thrombosed aneurysm Vasculitis 