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Table 2 Demographic and white matter hyperintensity comparisons between NS and patients with BABAD and LAA

From: Greater periventricular white matter hyperintensity severity in basilar artery branch atheromatous disease

 

BABAD (n = 151)

LAA (n = 97)

NS (n = 78)

p

Age (years)

72.3 (10.6)

73.2 (11.5)

72.6 (12.0)

0.786

Sex (men)

101 (66.9%)

54 (69.2%)

69 (71.1%)

0.790

Vascular risk factors

 Hypertension

121 (80.1%)

68 (87.2%)

51 (52.6%)

<0.001

 Diabetes mellitus

72 (47.7%)

38 (48.7%)

18 (18.6%)

<0.001

 Hyperlipidemia

32 (21.2%)

24 (30.8%)

14 (14.4%)

0.034

 Cigarette Smoking

24 (15.9%)

20 (25.7%)

30 (30.9%)

0.008

Periventricular WMH

 Total score

3.3 (1.7)

2.9 (1.9)

2.4 (2.4)

0.001a

 Score ≥ 3 (50th percentile)

99 (65.6%)

43 (44.3%)

43 (55.1%)

0.003

Subcortical WMH

 Total score

3.2 (3.1)

2.5 (2.8)

2.6 (3.4)

0.044

 Score ≥ 2 (50th percentile)

84 (55.6%)

36 (37.1%)

47 (60.3%)

0.292

  1. BABAD basilar artery branch atheromatous disease; LAA large-artery >50% atherosclerotic stenosis; NS non-stroke subjects; WMH white matter hyperintensity
  2. a Post-hoc Bonferroni analysis revealed that the BABAD group had a higher periventricular WMH score than the NS group
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