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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-11-19
pubmed:abstractText
One would think that risk factors for transient ischemic attack (TIA) and asymptomatic carotid bruit (ACB) would be similar. In our referral population and in several previously reported cohort populations, however, men outnumber women among patients with TIA. In contrast, women outnumber men among patients with ACB. We found in two independent populations that women with ACB are up to 5.7 times less likely than men to have carotid stenosis. Thus women are more prone than men to have ACB, but their bruits much less commonly reflect carotid stenosis. Women are probably predisposed to have carotid bruit even in the absence of carotid stenosis. In our referral population of ACB, this tendency among women for carotid bruit without stenosis does not seem to be related to lower hematocrit, higher prevalence of heart murmur, constitutionally smaller carotid arteries, or differences in pulse rate or body habitus.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0039-2499
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
17
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
877-81
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
The sex difference in manifestations of carotid bifurcation disease.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.