Table 3 Previous studies on stroke risk factors and MR spectroscopy.

Authors	Risk factors studied	Population	Tissue studied in spectroscopy
Kamba et al5	Hypertension	Sleep apnoea patients	White matter
	Cardiac disease
	Diabetes mellitus
	Hyperlipidaemia
Parsons et al6	Hyperglycaemia	Stroke patients	Ischaemic lesion
Bakker et al7	Carotid artery occlusion	TIA or minor stroke patients	White matter (CSO) ipsilateral to vessel occlusion
Firbank et al8	White matter hyperintensities	Elderly volunteers	Normal appearing white matter
Hund‐Georgiadis et al9	Cerebral small vessel disease	Patients with cerebral small vessel disease	Parietal white matter
Capizzano et al10	Vascular dementia	Subcortical ischaemic vascular dementia	Cortical and white matter