Many forms of vascular disease can be hard to diagnose

BALTIMORE —

When a person's blood vessels don't work properly, they may be diagnosed with vascular disease.

Mercy Medical Center vascular surgeon Dr. Javaneh Jabbari said different types of the condition can affect women. She said a big problem with vascular disease is some of the symptoms — like not having a lot of hair on your shin or having shiny shins — can be missed early on.

Jabbari said when women come to her with vascular disease, it's usually in older women and at later stages. She said there are many different types of vascular issues.

"In terms of the arteries, which are the blood vessels that bring blood to your body, you have artery disease of the leg, which is the peripheral arterial disease, that then you have aneurysms. So, that's just kind of like when your blood vesse