Occipital lobe infarctions are different

Figures & data

Table 1 Demography of young adults with occipital infarctions compared with infarctions other than occipital)

	Occipital infarctions %	Other infarctions %	P
Male	31.6	60.8	0.016
Mean age (years)	33.5	42.3	<0.001
Small-artery occlusion	0	16.0	ns
Dissection	0	6.6	ns
Prothrombotic state	26.3	5.2	0.005
Large-artery atherosclerosis	10.5	15.6	ns
Cardioembolism	10.5	7.5	ns
Stroke of other determined cause	5.3	1.4	ns
Stroke of undetermined cause	52.6	47.6	ns
Hypertension	0	34.4	0.001
Diabetes mellitus	10.5	11.8	ns
Smoking	47.4	38.2	ns
Migraine	15.8	16.6	ns
Myocardial infarction prestroke	5.3	7.5	ns
Angina pectoris prestroke	0	7.5	ns
Mean systolic blood pressure on admittance (mmHg)	126	149	0.020
Mean diastolic blood pressure on admittance (mmHg)	74	92	0.002
Total cholesterol on follow-up (mmol/L)	5.2	6.1	0.003
LDL on follow-up (mmol/L)	3.0	4.0	0.001
HDL on follow-up (mmol/L)	1.4	1.3	ns

Abbreviations: HDL, high-density lipoprotein; LDL, low-density lipoprotein; ns, not significant.