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Risk factor profile of different clinical manifestations of cerebral small vessel disease - data from SHEF-CSVD Study.

Staszewski, J.·Skrobowska, E.·Piusinska-Macoch, R.·Brodacki, B.·Stepien, A.
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BACKGROUNDLittle is known of the mechanisms of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD). Both atherosclerosis or non-atherosclerotic diffuse arteriopathy are involved.\n\nMETHODSA single-center, prospective, case-control study was performed in consecutive patients with different CSVD manifestations. The study group consisted of 205 patients: 52 with lacunar stroke (LS), 20 with subcortical hemorrhagic stroke (HS), 50 with vascular dementia (VaD), 28 with vascular parkinsonism (VaP) and 55 controls (CG) free of cerebrovascular disease but with high vascular risk.\n\nRESULTSPatients with CSVD had significantly higher prevalence of vascular risk factors including hypertension, diabetes mellitus, polymetabolic syndrome and chronic kidney disease. Patients with CSVD had also significantly higher fasting blood glucose, homocysteine, fibrinogen, systolic blood pressure, IMT values and lower eGFR, albumin and HDL levels. After adjustment for age and sex, low eGFR, albumin and high levels of uric acid and fibrinogen were associated with all CSVD groups, elevated fasting glucose was related to LS and HS. In the multivariate analysiss, the independent predictors for CSVD were female sex, low albumin, high fibrinogen, fasting glucose and uric acid. Patients with LS had significantly higher IMT values comparing to other CSVD groups, patients with VaP had a trend towards higher homocysteine levels.\n\nCONCLUSIONRisk factor profile for CSVD as a whole differs from subjects with proatherogenic profile without history of cerebrovascular disease. Our results support the concept that CSVD is not homogeneous, and that unique risk factors profiles exist for different clinical manifestations of the disease.

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Staszewski, J., Skrobowska, E., Piusinska-Macoch, R., Brodacki, B., Stepien, A.. 2017-07-23. Risk factor profile of different clinical manifestations of cerebral small vessel disease - data from SHEF-CSVD Study.. https://doi.org/10.1101/167221

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