Table 3.

Demographic and clinical data in subjects with and without silent brain lesions

	SBI-	SBI+	p value	PVH-	PVH+	p value	SWML-	SWML+	p value	MBs-	MBs+	p value
Number of subjects	1,794	144		1,859	79		1,706	232		1,904	34
Age, years	59.1	63.9	<0.0001	59.1	67.4	<0.0001	58.8	64.2	<0.0001	59.3	64.1	<0.0001
Sex (male), %	51.6	60.4	<0.05	52.2	54.4	n.s.	52.8	48.1	n.s.	52.1	58.8	n.s.
Smoking habit, %	17.2	18.1	n.s.	17.3	16.5	n.s.	17.5	16.0	n.s.	17.2	23.5	n.s.
Alcohol habit, %	36.4	38.9	n.s.	36.4	40.5	n.s.	36.8	35.5	n.s.	36.5	41.2	n.s.
Education, years	12.5	11.6	n.s.	12.4	11.9	n.s.	12.5	11.8	n.s.	12.4	11.7	n.s.
Hypertension, %	63.7	81.3	<0.0001	64.5	77.2	<0.05	63.9	73.6	<0.005	64.7	85.3	<0.02
			(<0.0001)			(n.s.)			(<0.02)			(<0.05)
Diabetes mellitus, %	8.6	17.4	<0.0001	8.9	16.5	<0.05	9.1	10.0	n.s.	9.0	23.5	<0.005
			(<0.05)			(n.s.)			(n.s.)			(<0.05)
Dyslipidemia, %	24.9	25.7	n.s.	25.2	19.0	n.s.	24.6	27.7	n.s.	24.9	29.4	n.s.

p values in parentheses are adjusted for age and sex. n.s. = Not significant.