Table 2.

Logistic regression odds-ratio relating various risk factors to prevalent silent cerebral infarcts

Independent Variable	OR (95% CI)	P value
Framingham Stroke Risk Profile score*	1.27 (1.10 – 1.46)	<.001
Systolic Blood Pressure (mm Hg) *	1.23 (1.07 – 1.42)	.005
Current smokers	1.34 (0.90 – 1.99)	.146
Hypertension	1.56 (1.15 – 2.11)	.004
Diabetes Mellitus	1.40 (0.90 – 2.17)	.135
Left Ventricular Hypertrophy	1.51 (0.17 – 13.04)	.709
Cardio Vascular Disease	1.38 ( 0.87 – 2.18)	.175
Atrial fibrillation	2.16 (1.07 – 4.40)	.033
Plasma homocysteine (mmol/l)	2.23 (1.42 – 3.51)	<.001
tHcy – top quartile †	1.67 (1.23 – 2.25)	<.001
Total Cholesterol*	1.10 (0.95 – 1.27)	.198
High Density Lipoprotein*	0.97 (0.82 – 1.13)	.664
Carotid Stenosis 25% +	1.62 (1.13 – 2.34)	.009
CCIMT ‡	1.20 (1.02 – 1.40)	.026
CCIMT – top quartile‡	1.11 (0.80 – 1.53)	.544
ICAIMT*§	1.32 (1.13 – 1.54)	<.001
ICAIMT – top quartile§	1.65 (1.22 – 2.24)	.001
LVM_HGT*∥	0.88 (0.73–1.07)	.192

^*Effect of increase of 1 SD

^†plasma total homocysteine

^‡Common carotid artery intima media thickness

^§Internal carotid artery intima media thickness

^∥Left ventricular mass adjusted for height