Research Article
Association between Asymptomatic Unilateral Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis and Electrophysiological Function of the Retina and Optic Nerve
Table 1
Clinical characteristics of the study groups.
| | Parameter | ICAS group | Control group | valuea |
| | Number of subjects | 42 | 34 | — | | Sex (male/female) | 28/14 | 21/13 | 0.81 | | Patient’s age [years] (mean ± SD) | 62.5 ± 6.5 | 62.5 ± 4.0 | 0.80 | | BMI [kg/m2] (mean ± SD) | 27.91 ± 3.67 | 27.34 ± 3.63 | 0.30 | | WHR [arbitrary units] (mean ± SD) | 0.94 ± 0.11 | 0.93 ± 0.11 | 0.52 | | Waist circumference [cm] (mean ± SD) | 97.24 ± 13.31 | 97.47 ± 13.24 | 0.98 | | MAP [mmHg] (mean ± SD) | 104.30 ± 9.87 | 104.05 ± 11.07 | 0.96 | | Current smokers (%) | 33.33 | 23.53 | 0.45 | | Former smokers (%) | 85.71 | 76.47 | 0.38 | | Smoking pack-years (mean ± SD) | 31.05 ± 30.94 | 27.18 ± 24.48 | 0.67 | | Period without smoking [years] (mean ± SD) | 5.36 ± 6.86 | 7.40 ± 10.59 | 0.99 | | Hypertension (%) | 80.95 | 64.71 | 0.12 | | Duration of hypertension [years] (mean ± SD) | 5.66 ± 6.06 | 7.68 ± 8.51 | 0.75 | | History of ischemic heart disease (%) | 35.71 | 20.59 | 0.20 | | History of cardiac infarction (%) | 16.67 | 17.65 | 1.00 | | History of cerebral stroke (%) | 33.33 | 8.82 | 0.01 | | History of peripheral artery disease (%) | 23.81 | 23.53 | 1.00 | | History of aortic aneurysm (%) | 9.52 | 11.76 | 1.00 |
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aMann–Whitney test for quantitative variables and Fisher’s exact test for qualitative ones.
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