Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with severe internal carotid artery stenosis who underwent carotid endarterectomy
Characteristic | No. (%) of patients*† | ||
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Total n = 219 | Case subjects n = 145 | Control subjects n = 67 | |
Male sex | 139 (63.5) | 90 (62.1) | 44 (65.7) |
Age, mean ± SE; yr | |||
Overall | 72.1 ± 0.6 | 71.9 ± 0.8 | 72.9 ± 1.2 |
Male participants | 71.9 ± 0.8 | 71.0 ± 1.0 | 73.9 ± 1.6 |
Female participants | 72.4 ± 0.9 | 73.7 ± 1.1 | 68.9 ± 1.6 |
Lateralization of carotid endarterectomy | |||
Right | 114 (52.0) | 73 (50.3) | 37 (55.2) |
Left | 105 (47.9) | 72 (49.6) | 30 (44.8) |
Place of residence | |||
Regina | 88 (39.3) | 54 (37.2) | 32 (47.8) |
Outside Regina | 131 (57.5) | 91 (62.8) | 35 (52.2) |
Index neurologic event | |||
Motor transient ischemic attack | 78 (35.2) | 49 (33.8) | 28 (41.8) |
Phasic transient ischemic attack | 25 (11.4) | 18 (12.4) | 7 (10.4) |
Sensory transient ischemic attack | 18 (7.8) | 14 (9.6) | 3 (4.5) |
Amaurosis fugax | 66 (28.3) | 53 (36.6) | 9 (13.4) |
Completed minor stroke | 32 (14.2) | 11 (7.6) | 20 (29.8) |