Prevalence of asymptomatic intracranial atherosclerosis in high-risk patients
- 5 June 2007
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurology
- Vol. 68 (23), 2035-2038
- https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000264427.09191.89
Abstract
We used transcranial Doppler to screen 3,057 patients who had at least one vascular risk factor of hypertension, diabetes, or hyperlipidemia and found 385 (12.6%) had middle cerebral artery stenosis. Elderly, hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia were associated factors. The prevalence escalated quadratically with increasing number of associated factors: from 7.2% for one, to 29.6% for four associated factors. Asymptomatic middle cerebral artery stenosis is common in patients with vascular risk factors.Keywords
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