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Table 2 Association between risk factors and the presence of MRI-defined high-risk lesion types in our population of patients presenting with carotid artery stenosis (n = 180).

From: MRI plaque imaging reveals high-risk carotid plaques especially in diabetic patients irrespective of the degree of stenosis

Variable

Odds Ratio

95% confidence Interval

P-value

  

Lower

Upper

 

Symptomatic Stenosis

13,35

5.19

34.29

<0.001

Degree of Stenosis

0,84

0.43

1.99

0.843

Diabetes Type II

2,58

1.14

5.84

0.023

Elevated Cholesterol

1,11

0.50

2.50

0.793

Coronary Heart Disease

1,11

0.47

2.60

0.816

Atrial Fibrillation

2,41

0.45

12.76

0.303

Hypertension

0,61

0.21

1.74

0.353

Current or Former Smoker

1,06

0.51

2.22

0.873

Preprocedural DWI-Lesion

1,01

0.36

2.86

0.989