Prevalence and Correlates of Silent Cerebral Infarcts in the Framingham Offspring Study

Das, Rohit R.; Seshadri, Sudha; Beiser, Alexa S.; Kelly-Hayes, Margaret; Au, Rhoda; Himali, Jayandra J.; Kase, Carlos S.; Benjamin, Emelia J.; Polak, Joseph F.; O'Donnell, Christopher J.; Yoshita, Mitsuhiro; D'Agostino, Ralph B.; DeCarli, Charles; Wolf, Philip A.

doi:10.1161/strokeaha.108.516575

Prevalence and Correlates of Silent Cerebral Infarcts in the Framingham Offspring Study

Background and Purpose— Previous estimates of the prevalence of silent cerebral infarction (SCI) on MRI in community-based samples have varied between 5.8% and 17.7% depending on age, ethnicity, presence of comorbidities, and imaging techniques. We document the prevalence and risk factors associa…