INTROduCTIONPatients undergoing vascular procedures are prone to developing postoperative complications affecting their short -term mortality.Prospective reports describing the incidence of long -term complications after vascular surgery are lacking.ObjECTIvEs We aimed to describe the incidence of complications 1 year after vascular surgery and to evaluate an association between myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery (MINS) and 1 -year mortality.PATIENTs ANd mEThOds This is a substudy of a large prospective cohort study Vascular Events in Noncardiac Surgery Patients Cohort Evaluation (VISION).Recruitment took place in 28 centers across 14 countries from August 2007 to November 2013.We enrolled patients aged 45 years or older undergoing vascular surgery, receiving general or regional anesthesia, and hospitalized for at least 1 night postoperatively.Plasma cardiac troponin T concentration was measured before the surgery and on the first, second,