ASSOCIATION OF EXTRACRANIAL CAROTID ARTERIAL-DISEASE, PRIOR ATHEROTHROMBOTIC BRAIN INFARCTION, SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION, AND LEFT-VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY WITH THE INCIDENCE OF NEW ATHEROTHROMBOTIC BRAIN INFARCTION AT 45-MONTH FOLLOW-UP IN 1,482 OLDER PATIENTS

Authors
ARONOW WS AHN C KRONZON I GUTSTEIN H SCHOENFELD MR
Citation
Ws. Aronow et al., ASSOCIATION OF EXTRACRANIAL CAROTID ARTERIAL-DISEASE, PRIOR ATHEROTHROMBOTIC BRAIN INFARCTION, SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION, AND LEFT-VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY WITH THE INCIDENCE OF NEW ATHEROTHROMBOTIC BRAIN INFARCTION AT 45-MONTH FOLLOW-UP IN 1,482 OLDER PATIENTS, The American journal of cardiology, 79(7), 1997, pp. 991
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The American journal of cardiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029149
Volume
79
Issue
7
Year of publication
1997
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9149(1997)79:7<991:AOECAP>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
Comparison of 239 older patients with 40% to 100% extracranial carotid arterial disease (ECAD) with 1,243 older patients with no significant ECAD showed a higher prevalence of systemic hypertension, left ventri cular (LV) hypertrophy, and prior atherothrombotic brain infarction (A BI) and a higher incidence of new ABI in patients with ECAD than in pa tients without ECAD. A multivariate Cox regression model showed that i ndependent predictors of new ABI were ECAD (risk ratio = 2.5), systemi c hypertension (risk ratio = 2.3), prior ABI (risk ratio = 2.3), LV hy pertrophy (risk ratio = 2.3), and male sex (risk ratio = 1.3).