The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Table 3 Frequency of different degrees of carotid atherosclerosis among the study population

From: Frequency and risk factors of carotid artery disease among ischemic stroke patients in the south Egypt: hospital-based study

	Extracranial stenosis < 70% (n = 75)	Extracranial stenosis ≥ 70% (n = 44)	p-value
Age group
< 60 years	26 (34.7%)	2 (4.5%)	< 0.001
≥ 60 years	49 (65.3%)	42 (95.5%)	< 0.001
Sex
Male	61 (81.3%)	43 (97.7%)	0.009
Female	14 (18.7%)	1 (2.3%)	0.009
DM	25 (33.3%)	29 (65.9%)	0.001
Hypertension	46 (61.3%)	43 (97.7%)	< 0.001
Ischemic heart disease	17 (22.7%)	24 (54.5%)	< 0.001
Dyslipidemia	45(60%)	39 (88.6%)	0.001
Smoking	38 (50.7%)	33 (75%)	0.009
NIHSS (mean ± SD)	12.12 ± 2.6	11.80 ± 1.7	0.533

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