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Asymptomatic Intracranial Stenosis; Developing Countries; Epidemiology; Prevention; Radiology; Sociodemographic Risk Factors; Stroke
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Study Protocol: Asymptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease In Pakistanis., Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, Farzin Majeed,, Omrana Pasha, Muhammad Islam, Iqbal Azam Syed, Muhammad Saleem Ilyas, Munawar Hussain, Kamran Masood, Bilal Ahmed, Sumaira Nazir,, Zafar Sajjad, Scott E. . Kasner
Study Protocol: Asymptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease In Pakistanis., Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, Farzin Majeed,, Omrana Pasha, Muhammad Islam, Iqbal Azam Syed, Muhammad Saleem Ilyas, Munawar Hussain, Kamran Masood, Bilal Ahmed, Sumaira Nazir,, Zafar Sajjad, Scott E. . Kasner
Department of Medicine
Background : Intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD) is the most frequent subtype of ischemic stroke globally. It is important to describe the determinants of early ICAD as a strategy to prevent strokes from clinically evident and progressive ICAD. Our objective is to report the determinants of asymptomatic ICAD by linking the presence or absence of ICAD on magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA) with detailed risk assessment in asymptomatic adults.
Methods : This is an observational cross-sectional analytical study. We plan to recruit 200 adult participants from the radiology departments of two tertiary care centers of Karachi, Pakistan. The participants will first be …