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Abstract
This work included 173 patients with carotid artery disease 102 males and 71 females .
All cases were submitted to :
1- Through history taking and clinical assessment .
2- Laboratory investigations (blood sugar level – total cholesterol level- and other routine tests ).
3- CT skull ( stroke patients )
4- ECG & echocardiography
5- Carotid ultrasonography .
6- Carotid angiography (in selected cases with surgically correctable stenosis ).
The age of the patients ranged from 46-72 years (M ±SD ,55.2±8.5)
Risk factors were distributed as follow {hypertension (56.6%) –diabetes (28%)-smoking (39%) –hyperlipidemia (7%)} Our patients were categorized into three groups ( Stroke TIAS and asymptomatic carotid artery disease patients ).