Research Article
Functional MRI Study of Working Memory Impairment in Patients with Symptomatic Carotid Artery Disease
Table 1
Demographic characteristics of patients and controls.
| | Left ICA () | Right ICA () | Control () |
| Age, years (mean ± SD) | | | | Gender M/F | 8/3 | 3/7 | 11/10 | Education, years (mean ± SD) | | | | Auditory digital memory (mean ± SD) | | | | Visual digital memory (mean ± SD) | | | | Severity of vessel stenosis | | | | 70–99%, | 8 | 5 | / | Occlusion, | 3 | 5 | / | Hypertension, | 5 | 4 | / | Hypercholesterolemia, | 1 | 2 | / | Diabetes, | 1 | 1 | / | Heart disease, | 1 | 1 | / | Smokers, | 2 | 2 | / | White matter lesions, | 6 | 5 | / |
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