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Incidence of ICAD
• Approximately 60,000 Americans suffer
from ICAD each year
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• Asian cultures have a higher incidence
rate- up to 56% of ischemic strokes are
caused by ICAD in some regions
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• Incidence rates are higher in African-
American and Hispanic populations
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Sacco RL, Kargman DE, Gu Q, Zamanillo MC: Race‐ethnicity and determinants of intracranial atherosclerotic cerebral infarction. The Northern
Manhattan Stroke Study. Stroke 1995,26(1):14‐20; Wityk RJ, Lehman D, Klag M, et al.: Race and sex differences in the distribution of cerebral
atherosclerosis.
Stroke
1996,27(11):1974–1980.
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Lee SJ, Cho SJ, Moon HS
, et al.
: Combined extracranial and intracranial atherosclerosis in Korean patients.
Arch Neurol
2003,60(11):1561‐–564.
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The SSYLIVIA Study Investigators. Stenting of Symptomatic Atherosclerotic Lesions in the Vertebral or Intracranial Arteries.
Stroke
, June
2004;35:1388–1392.