Table 3.

Correlation between risk factors and cerebrovascular symptoms

	Asymptomatic patients	Symptomatic patients	Univariate analysis	Multivariate analysis
	N = 125	N = 265	p	p	OR (95% CI)
1st model
Age, mean (SD)	70.0 (7.3)	69.4 (7.0)	0.90	0.11	1.03 (0.99–1.06)
Gender
M	79 (63.2%)	194 (73.2%)	0.06	0.02	0.57 (0.35–0.92)
F	46 (36.8%)	71 (28.8%)
Hypertension	73 (58.4%)	198 (74.7%)	0.001	0.004	1.98 (1.24–3.17)
Diabetes	29 (23.2%)	65 (24.5%)	0.80	0.86	0.96 (0.56–1.62)
Smoking habit	75 (60.0%)	152 (57.4%)	0.66	0.31	0.78 (0.49–1.25)
Dyslipidemia (high LDL-C)	72 (57.6%)	185 (69.8%)	0.02	0.04	1.64 (1.03–2.61)
Obesity	6 (4.8%)	37 (14.0%)	0.006	0.02	0.34 (0.14–0.86)
2nd model
Metabolic syndrome	30 (24.0%)	93 (35.2%)	0.03	0.04	1.71 (1.05–3.04)
Metabolic syndrome without obesity	24 (20.2%)	61 (26.3%)	0.24	0.26	1.17 (0.71–1.88)
Metabolic syndrome with obesity	6 (5.9%)	33 (16.2%)	0.01	0.01	3.15 (1.85–5.10)